High server I/O when AnimateIt plugin is enabled

  • Resolved deeveedee

    (@deeveedee)


    9 years, 4 months ago

    First of all – thank you for a great plugin. This made it so easy to add animation to my WordPress website.

    I had installed AnimateIT 2.1.7 with WordPress 4.7.2 and the Fruitful theme in a website that included a single page with 27 [edsanimate_start][edsanimate_end] short codes. My website was hosted on GoDaddy C-Panel with Resouce Level 1 and I noticed that the server I/O was continually hitting the Level 1 limit. I upgraded my C-Panel resource level to Level 3, which accommodated the high server I/O utilization, but did not explain why my site server I/O utilization was constantly high regardless of the number of visitors. Logs showed frequent AnimateIt plugin calls at all times, even when visitors were engaged with pages that did not include [edsanimate] short codes.

    After I deleted the [edsanimate] short codes and disabled the AnimateIt plugin. My server I/O has now dropped to near zero where I’d expect it to be with no visitors and server I/O stays well within Level 1 resource levels.

    Does anyone know why server I/O might be excessive when the AnimateIt plugin is is active (even without site visitors)?

    Any ideas would help, since I’d like to restore the animation. This is a great plugin if you’re looking to add animation to your WordPress site.

    • This topic was modified 9 years, 4 months ago by deeveedee.
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  • Plugin Author eleopard

    (@eleopard)

    9 years, 4 months ago

    Hi deeveedee,

    Thank you for bringing this up. However, we are not able to recreate this scenario.

    We will look into this further and let you know if we find something.

    Thread Starter deeveedee

    (@deeveedee)

    9 years, 4 months ago

    Hi, @eleopard,

    Thank you for the reply (and for the great plugin!). We are going to re-enable AnimateIt and monitor server I/O activity. It appears that our SEO plugin had an update at the same time that we disabled AnimateIt. This SEO plugin update fixed a bug where “sitemaps were being invalidated too often.”

    After further review of our visitor logs, we had incorrectly read the visitor log and there were visitors at times when we thought there were none. We also noticed that visitors tended to spend more time on the page with your animation, so the frequent AnimateIt plugin calls that we observed were in fact the result of legitimate users enjoying the animated content.

    It seems that our excessive server I/O was due to the SEO plugin and visitors enjoying the animated content – NOT a problem with AnimateIt. In fact – AnimateIt is doing exactly what it should!

    I am marking this topic as “Resolved” and will continue to monitor. Thank you.

    • This reply was modified 9 years, 4 months ago by deeveedee.
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