Title: Transient Bug
Last modified: August 25, 2024

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# Transient Bug

 *  [kocakserdar](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kocakserdar/)
 * (@kocakserdar)
 * [1 year, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/transient-bug/)
 * Hello,
 * As seen below, the plugin creates millions of transients unnecessarily (duplicated).
 * ![](https://i0.wp.com/i.imgur.com/XvFBQvg.png?ssl=1)
 * If I convert the timeout value from millisecond to date for the corresponding
   transient, It says **Tue Jan 20 1970**. Also, I added checked two random transients
   to see whether they’re duplicated or not:
 * ![](https://i0.wp.com/i.imgur.com/ohvT0Ov.png?ssl=1)
 * Because of the issue our database went crazy! Although I deleted all the transients,
   they automatically appeared again.
 * ![](https://i0.wp.com/i.imgur.com/6C5Ekrc.png?ssl=1)
 * Any idea? Thank you!

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 *  Plugin Author [xnau webdesign](https://wordpress.org/support/users/xnau/)
 * (@xnau)
 * [1 year, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/transient-bug/#post-17973971)
 * This is not normal behavior for the plugin. It’s normal there be a lot of them
   built up over time, especially with a busy site, but certainly not enough to 
   cause problems with the database. Transients are only made when a form is submitted,
   and normally, this does not happen often. They are not created on common events
   such as loading a page.
 * What you’re seeing there may be caused by some kind of malfunction somewhere 
   on your site. Especially when you say that the transients reappeared after they
   were deleted. They would normally build up slowly. On my site, there are less
   than 2000, and I have never cleared them out over many years of operation.
 * Are you seeing any other odd behavior on your site?
 * You could try managing them with a transient management plugin, but you should
   try to identify the underlying problem and solve it, really.

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 * Last activity: [1 year, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/transient-bug/#post-17973971)
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