Title: Latest update causing high load
Last modified: November 17, 2020

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# Latest update causing high load

 *  Resolved [danbeach](https://wordpress.org/support/users/danbeach/)
 * (@danbeach)
 * [5 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/latest-update-causing-high-load/)
 * After updating to the latest version, 2 of my servers have been experiencing 
   high load. I’m not even trying to use the plugin at the moment so guessing something
   was kicked off by a cron process. Looking at mysql, there’s usually a dozen or
   so processes like:
    [trimmed output of “show full processlist;”]
 * Waiting for table metadata lock | ALTER TABLE pag_ns_cloner_logs CHANGE COLUMN`
   wp_data` wp_data TEXT DEFAULT NULL
    Waiting for table metadata lock | ALTER TABLE
   pag_ns_cloner_logs CHANGE COLUMN `wp_data` wp_data TEXT DEFAULT NULL rename result
   table | ALTER TABLE pag_ns_cloner_logs CHANGE COLUMN `users_count` users_count
   INT(20) DEFAULT NULL Waiting for table metadata lock | ALTER TABLE pag_ns_cloner_logs
   CHANGE COLUMN `users_count` users_count INT(20) DEFAULT NULL Waiting for table
   metadata lock | ALTER TABLE pag_ns_cloner_logs CHANGE COLUMN `users_count` users_count
   INT(20) DEFAULT NULL Waiting for table metadata lock | ALTER TABLE pag_ns_cloner_logs
   CHANGE COLUMN `files_count` files_count INT(20) DEFAULT NULL Waiting for table
   metadata lock | ALTER TABLE pag_ns_cloner_logs CHANGE COLUMN `files_count` files_count
   INT(20) DEFAULT NULL Waiting for table metadata lock | ALTER TABLE pag_ns_cloner_logs
   CHANGE COLUMN `files_count` files_count INT(20) DEFAULT NULL Waiting for table
   metadata lock | ALTER TABLE pag_ns_cloner_logs CHANGE COLUMN `files_count` files_count
   INT(20) DEFAULT NULL Waiting for table metadata lock | ALTER TABLE pag_ns_cloner_logs
   CHANGE COLUMN `files_count` files_count INT(20) DEFAULT NULL Waiting for table
   metadata lock | ALTER TABLE pag_ns_cloner_logs CHANGE COLUMN `rows_count` rows_count
   INT(20) DEFAULT NULL Waiting for table metadata lock | ALTER TABLE pag_ns_cloner_logs
   CHANGE COLUMN `clone_mode` clone_mode VARCHAR(100) NOT NULL Waiting for table
   metadata lock | ALTER TABLE pag_ns_cloner_logs CHANGE COLUMN `clone_mode` clone_mode
   VARCHAR(100) NOT NULL Waiting for table metadata lock | ALTER TABLE pag_ns_cloner_logs
   CHANGE COLUMN `version` version VARCHAR(50) NOT NULL Waiting for table metadata
   lock | ALTER TABLE pag_ns_cloner_logs CHANGE COLUMN `version` version VARCHAR(
   50) NOT NULL Waiting for table metadata lock | ALTER TABLE pag_ns_cloner_logs
   CHANGE COLUMN `version` version VARCHAR(50) NOT NULL

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 *  Plugin Author [Never Settle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/neversettle/)
 * (@neversettle)
 * [5 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/latest-update-causing-high-load/#post-13674645)
 * Thanks for reporting that [@danbeach](https://wordpress.org/support/users/danbeach/).
   We already had a fix for this underway and just released (4.1.3). Can you check
   and see if updating takes care of that load issue for you?
 *  Thread Starter [danbeach](https://wordpress.org/support/users/danbeach/)
 * (@danbeach)
 * [5 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/latest-update-causing-high-load/#post-13679169)
 * That took care of it. Thank you!
 *  Plugin Author [Never Settle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/neversettle/)
 * (@neversettle)
 * [5 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/latest-update-causing-high-load/#post-13679879)
 * Excellent, thanks for confirming.

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 * Last activity: [5 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/latest-update-causing-high-load/#post-13679879)
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