Title: constantly executing the “admin-ajax.php” script
Last modified: October 22, 2017

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# constantly executing the “admin-ajax.php” script

 *  Resolved [cdx](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cdx/)
 * (@cdx)
 * [8 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/constantly-executing-the-admin-ajax-php-script/)
 * Simple History is a great plugin but it was causing huge spikes in the number
   of our executions on our Siteground account causing us to receive a warning from
   SG. They dug into the statistics and found the following”
 * Judging by the URL in the ~15,000 requests, it seems the plugin “simple-history”
   is constantly executing the “admin-ajax.php” script. Please review its settings
   or disable it to resolve the issue. Or you may prefer to contact the developers
   of the plugin to check if this notification service can be disabled because it
   is generating too many script executions on the shared hosting server.
 * I had to deactivate Simple History from my sties. Why is Simple History issuing
   so many calls to the “admin-ajax.php” script and can we limit the frequency?

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 *  Plugin Author [Pär Thernström](https://wordpress.org/support/users/eskapism/)
 * (@eskapism)
 * [8 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/constantly-executing-the-admin-ajax-php-script/#post-9610822)
 * It does use AJAX requests to check if there are any new events. However this 
   only happens if you have the Simple History page open. You must have had that
   page opened a looong time for that many number of requests to happen.
 * But anyway, yes, a setting to disable the check for new events may be handy sometimes.
   I’ll take a look at it!
 *  Thread Starter [cdx](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cdx/)
 * (@cdx)
 * [8 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/constantly-executing-the-admin-ajax-php-script/#post-9612629)
 * what is the Simple History page? do you mean the WP Dashboard? i do leave the
   dashboard open and never had any issues before i installed Simple History and
   don’t have any since i uninstalled it.
    -  This reply was modified 8 years, 7 months ago by [cdx](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cdx/).
 *  Plugin Author [Pär Thernström](https://wordpress.org/support/users/eskapism/)
 * (@eskapism)
 * [8 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/constantly-executing-the-admin-ajax-php-script/#post-9682856)
 * Yes, if you have the dashboard open Simple History will periodically check the
   log for new events. If you have a large amount events this could perhaps be a
   bit slow or at least there will be many requests.
 * If this is a problem you can hide Simple History from the dashboard using the
   settings page. That way Simple History will only fetch the audit log when you
   actively go to the history log page.

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 * Last reply from: [Pär Thernström](https://wordpress.org/support/users/eskapism/)
 * Last activity: [8 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/constantly-executing-the-admin-ajax-php-script/#post-9682856)
 * Status: resolved