Dashboard causing slowdown to site

  • atticus

    (@atticus)


    13 years, 5 months ago

    I have a WordPress 3.5 install on hosted linux environment.

    When I navigate to the admin dashboard, the server initiates a php52.cgi process, sometime more than one.

    When I navigate away from the dashboard to another part of admin area, more php52.cgi processes spawn.

    These php52.cgi processes often do not shut down, and when that happens the site slows down to the point it won’t serve pages from non-wordpress sites I have running on the server.

    Any thoughts on causes?

    Best,
    Brent

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  • Moderator t-p

    (@t-p)

    13 years, 5 months ago

    have you tried:

    -deactivating ALL plugins (yes, all) temporarily to narrow down the problem. If the problem goes away, re-activate them individually (one-by-one) to find the problematic plugin(s). If you can’t get into your admin dashboard, try resetting the plugins folder by FTP or phpMyAdmin. Sometimes, an apparently inactive plugin can still cause problems (because the hooks remain unless plugins completely removed or some plugins stick around in cached files. So by renaming the folder, you break them and force them inactive). If applicible, also remember to deactivate any plugins in the mu-plugins folder. The easiest way is to rename that folder to mu-plugins-old

    – To rule out any theme-specific issue, try switching to the unedited default theme for a moment using the WP dashboard. If you don’t have access to your admin area, you can switch to the default theme by renaming your current theme’s folder in wp-content/themes via FTP or SFTP or whatever file management application your host provides.

    Thread Starter atticus

    (@atticus)

    13 years, 5 months ago

    Thank you for taking the time to respond!

    I’ll give that a whirl.

    Happy Holidays!

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