Title: index.php spawning
Last modified: August 31, 2016

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# index.php spawning

 *  Resolved [arjanvr](https://wordpress.org/support/users/arjanvr/)
 * (@arjanvr)
 * [10 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/indexphp-spawning/)
 * Hello,
 * The plugin somehow causes wordpress to spawn a whole bunch of index.php processes.
   They are all at 100% cpu capacity and causes the website and vps not to function.
   After checking all plugins I noticed then when I remove this plugin it stops 
   and when i reinstall it, it happens again.
 * Any clues what can be causing this?
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/feed-them-social/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/feed-them-social/)

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 *  Plugin Author [slickremix](https://wordpress.org/support/users/slickremix/)
 * (@slickremix)
 * [10 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/indexphp-spawning/#post-7426437)
 * Who are you hosting with?
 * Spencer
 *  Thread Starter [arjanvr](https://wordpress.org/support/users/arjanvr/)
 * (@arjanvr)
 * [10 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/indexphp-spawning/#post-7426493)
 * Its on my privated dedicated server’s vps.
 *  Plugin Author [slickremix](https://wordpress.org/support/users/slickremix/)
 * (@slickremix)
 * [10 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/indexphp-spawning/#post-7426495)
 * Just to clarify the server is not with godaddy or dreamhost?
 * Can you check your error log file and see if any php errors appear from our plugin?
 * Spencer
 *  Thread Starter [arjanvr](https://wordpress.org/support/users/arjanvr/)
 * (@arjanvr)
 * [10 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/indexphp-spawning/#post-7426500)
 * No it’s not. I cannot find any error that seem to be related to the plugin. However
   if I reinstall it then whole thing starts again.
 *  Plugin Author [slickremix](https://wordpress.org/support/users/slickremix/)
 * (@slickremix)
 * [10 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/indexphp-spawning/#post-7426509)
 * Thanks for the info. Can you please paste the report from the system info page
   of our plugin and let me know what feeds you are trying to use?
 * Spencer
 *  Thread Starter [arjanvr](https://wordpress.org/support/users/arjanvr/)
 * (@arjanvr)
 * [10 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/indexphp-spawning/#post-7426526)
 * The second I have installed it it makes the server go crazy and i cannot access
   it anymore.. how would i reach this page?
 * Thank you
 *  Plugin Author [slickremix](https://wordpress.org/support/users/slickremix/)
 * (@slickremix)
 * [10 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/indexphp-spawning/#post-7426528)
 * You should still be able to access the wp-admin panel.
 * When you did have it installed and it worked did you add your own facebook token?
   Very sorry for the troubles. Seems like as of the last 2 weeks people have been
   having issues, but we have not made any updates that would effect anything. Possibly
   a wp update or something is causing this conflict in your case.
 * Spencer
 *  Thread Starter [arjanvr](https://wordpress.org/support/users/arjanvr/)
 * (@arjanvr)
 * [10 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/indexphp-spawning/#post-7426534)
 * Trying to help out to make you find what is causing this but i reinstalled it
   again and it shows no error in apache error log and access log..
 * On the website there are 2 shortcodes being used but no own facebook token.
 * [fts_instagram instagram_id=********** type=user]
 * and
 * [fts_pinterest pinterest_name=****** type=boards_list]
 *  Plugin Author [slickremix](https://wordpress.org/support/users/slickremix/)
 * (@slickremix)
 * [10 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/indexphp-spawning/#post-7426732)
 * Not sure if you saw this message we posted in another thread but this should 
   solve your issue I believe.
 * After a MANY hours of researching, writing and testing and we FINALLY have a 
   solution everyone! Please re-installed the free version! We pushed a silent update(
   meaning no version change yet) to fix the issue.
 * After you’ve re-installed the free version please go to the “Settings Page” under
   Feed Them tab and check the “Fix Internal Server Error” .
 * For those looking for a technical answer – When this option is checked we are
   no longer using the curl_multi to handle things but instead initiating a call
   for each curl.
 * We can’t say for sure but we think it may be a bug with the php versions on the
   servers and the call curl_multi_exec.
 * **JUST NOTE** We did some tests and this may dramatically increase the load times
   of the feeds as it is technically not making only one curl call anymore but many
   curl calls. The bright side is that at least it will work.
 * Thanks,
    Justin and Spencer (the SlickRemix Team)

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