Excessive server resources?

  • Resolved ricmo

    (@ricmo)


    3 years, 9 months ago

    Hi Tobbias,

    I’m having an existential issue with a site. It uses a lot of Tablepress tables with the Row filtering extension (usually just showing 10-20 lines out of 500).

    Since a few days, the site has been getting more traffic, and it has been crashing constantly. After MANY discussions with the support team and a consultant specialized in site speed, they tell me that “it seems the Tablepress is exhausting the server resources.”

    Do you have any experience with this? Could it be the Row filtering extension? Or perhaps using more than 1 table per post (usually around 3)?

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  • Plugin Author Tobias Bäthge

    (@tobiasbg)

    3 years, 9 months ago

    Hi,

    thanks for your post, and sorry for the trouble.

    No, sorry, I don’t have experience with such results, and haven’t really heard similar reports. I’m not saying that TablePress is not causing this, but likely it would surely not the only or alone cause.

    Showing more than one table per post, or using the Row Filtering should not really have an influence on the performance. Sure, the filtering will result in many string comparisons and function calls, but modern servers with modern versions of PHP are fast with that. Also, TablePress has its own caching built in (unless you have disabled that via an Extension, the Shortcode parameters, or a code change), so that the filtering is not done on every page load.

    I guess it would need detailed profiling of the PHP code execution path, to really see what function calls are slow, on your site, but unfortunately, I don’t have experience with that.

    Regards,
    Tobias

    Thread Starter ricmo

    (@ricmo)

    3 years, 9 months ago

    Hello Tobias, thank you for your feedback.

    This is what my hosting company is saying:
    “It seems clear that in the last few weeks, the Tablepress plugin has had an update or some form of actualization made to it, which has most likely prompted this situation.”

    Has Tablepress been updated recently in a way that it changes the way it catches or makes server calls?

    Plugin Author Tobias Bäthge

    (@tobiasbg)

    3 years, 9 months ago

    Hi,

    no. The last (and still current) release of TablePress is version 1.14, released on July 20, 2021 (yes, last year!).
    No release at all in the last weeks (except for the TablePress 2.0-beta1 and beta2 versions, see https://tablepress.org/8-million-downloads-tablepress-2-0/ , which you are probably not yet using).
    And all these release do not contain any code changes that should or would impact performance.

    Regards,
    Tobias

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