Title: Database overload: table wfConfig
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Database overload: table wfConfig

 *  Resolved [barnez](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pidengmor/)
 * (@pidengmor)
 * [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-overload-table-wfconfig/)
 * I have Wordfence Security 3.5.1 installed and am getting what seems to be excessive
   overload on one of my database tables. The database is about 8 MB in total and
   the overload of table wfConfig runs at over 1.5 MB. This table seems to be associated
   with Wordfence, and no matter whether I optimise or repair the table in myphpadmin,
   the overload returns within 24 hrs. I have also tried to deactivate and reactivate
   the plugin, but this has not helped.
 * I could just set my database plugin to optimise on a daily basis, but is there
   a solution for this issue?
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordfence/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordfence/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Mark Maunder](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mmaunder/)
 * (@mmaunder)
 * [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-overload-table-wfconfig/#post-3303308)
 * Hi,
 * Can you tell me what you mean by overload? Is it just unusually large in size?
   Or are you seeing something else?
 * Thanks,
 * Mark.
 *  Thread Starter [barnez](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pidengmor/)
 * (@pidengmor)
 * [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-overload-table-wfconfig/#post-3303309)
 * Hi Mark,
 * Thanks for your response. Wordfence is functioning absolutely fine. The issue
   is only with the unusually large size of the overhead, in relation to the overall
   size of the database.
 * I read that databases should be optimised once a month or so to reduce the total
   overhead below 10% of the total size of the database. But as things stand I need
   to optimise every day, and as soon as I run Wordfence from the Dashboard, for
   example to check for recent visitors, the high overhead (1.5 MB) of the wfConfig
   table reappears again.
 * Thanks,
 * Barnez

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 * Last reply from: [barnez](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pidengmor/)
 * Last activity: [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-overload-table-wfconfig/#post-3303309)
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