WP Crontrol doesn’t affect the way that cron events are run, so to be honest it’s unlikely that WP Crontrol is the cause.
- Are you certain that there’s a strong correlation between CPU usage and this plugin being active? Are there cron events that were scheduled to run during the time the plugin wasn’t active?
- Do you have any paused events that start to run again when the plugin is deactivated? See What happens when I deactivate the WP Crontrol plugin for more info.
Thread Starter
Efs
(@stevendigital)
I will make some more test just to be sure, and to be able to provide even more information. Regarding your first question i have monitored this for at least a day. I will do this again and will report here.
Best Regards
Thread Starter
Efs
(@stevendigital)
Hello,
So, i have run some more tests on the site, just to be sure. So the finds are below.
With wp-crontrol the CPU and Physical memory usage are higher when the plugin is active. Also, a high CPU activity is related, when I moved some scheduled runs to run in another period of time and once per day. This might have affected the big CPU usage. Regardless that I can still see CPU usage around 60-80% when the plugin is active. If I deactivate the plugin, these stats drop to 40-50%.
I do not have any paused events currently. All I did was change the time and the frequency that a cron job should start. This is an e-shop site, and I tried to void anything that could brake the site at all.
Also i would like to ask if there is any way to clear the data that the plugin might have stored, so that i can check again and probably make a better scheduling.
Let me know of your thougths. Feel free to pass me any guide or documentation. Still trying to learn a thing or 2 about this.
