[wp-hackers] Multisite memory issue

Frank Bueltge frank at bueltge.de
Thu Nov 7 08:37:23 UTC 2013


Hi Jesse,
I use the plugin Debug Objects to identifier the problem queries. The list
queries from default core, also all other queries and extra all plugins,
there run on the current.
https://github.com/bueltge/Debug-Objects

Kurz und Knapp, von unterwegs.
LG Frank
Am 06.11.2013 21:23 schrieb "Jesse Friedman" <me at jes.se.com>:

> I have a rather large multisite network powering close to 500 sites. We
> don't get a lot of traffic, maybe 250,000 uniques a month.
>
> Last year we had 100 sites running on a well known WordPress only hosting
> company that uses varnish cache.  We've grown by 400 sites in the last 3
> months and have immediately experienced major memory problems.
>
> We upgraded our hosting plan and are now running a bare metal box, with
> master / slave database replication.  However we are still seeing some
> memory issues. It is not as bad as it was, but here are some specs and
> symptoms.
>
> Symptoms:
>
>    - White screens (not of death), if you simply refresh the page loads.
>    This happens on a site level and occurs about 50 times a day
>    - On a network level sites.php or users.php show white screens for users
>    that frequent the network. The more sites I visit the more likely I will
>    get the white screen. However if I create a brand new super admin user I
>    can browse the network admin just fine
>    - Probably unrelated, the plugins section is no longer identifying
>    plugin upgrade needs. In other words WordPress SEO needs an upgrade now
> but
>    it isn't telling me or giving me the option to auto update
>    - The site and user count in the dashboard is way off. Now most of these
>    sites were generated by moving them in from another multisite manually
>    through the database
>
> PHP Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 134217728 bytes exhausted (tried to
> allocate 44484 bytes) in /nas/wp/www/sites/__/wp-content/object-cache.php
> on line 196, referer: url of site page
>
> PHP Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 268435456 bytes exhausted (tried to
> allocate 317441 bytes) in
> /nas/wp/www/sites/__/wp-admin/includes/class-wp-ms-sites-list-table.php on
> line 282
>
> PHP Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 134217728 bytes exhausted (tried to
> allocate 38780 bytes) in /nas/wp/www/sites/__/wp-content/object-cache.php
> on line 196, referer: url of site page
>
>
> Specs
> We have hundreds of in house made themes and 1 in house framework plugin.
> Network Activated Plugins:
>
>    - Akismet
>    - Blog Copier
>    - Breadcrumb NavXT
>    - Gravity Forms
>    - Jetpack
>    - Redirection
>    - Simple 301 Redirects
>    - WordPress Importer
>    - WordPress MU Domain Mapping
>    - WordPress SEO
>    - WP-Paginate
>    - WP Mobile Detect
>
> 443 themes
> 288 users
>
>
> The hosting provider said it was the shear size of our network that
> required us to upgrade the hardware. Now that we are on this super robust
> system, they are convinced its a plugin or theme causing a memory problem.
>
> *HELP PLEASE! :*)
>
>    - Has anyone had any luck tracking a memory issue through hundreds of
>    sites, using network activated plugins but hundreds of different themes?
>    - Right now I feel like the memory issue could be either the size of our
>    network or something in our code, but i have no idea how to find the
>    problem.
>       - I have duplicated the network into a staging environment and we
>       have no issues there but there is also no traffic. I believe that I
> need
>       traffic to the network to be able to duplicate the problem
>       - I can not turn off any of the plugins without breaking the network
>       - I can not turn off any themes without disabling client sites
>
>
> --
> thanks
>
> *jesse friedman*
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