Title: Transient explosion
Last modified: August 17, 2017

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# Transient explosion

 *  Resolved [ccarfi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ccarfi/)
 * (@ccarfi)
 * [8 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/transient-explosion/)
 * We are seeing a ton of transients being created with values like “200” and “404”
   that seem(?) to have increased greatly over the past few weeks. The timeout value
   on them is typically very short (5 min).
 * Is the Redirection plugin creating these?
    Did something change recently that
   would cause the number of transients in the options table to increase significantly?
   Is this expected behavior?

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 *  Plugin Author [John Godley](https://wordpress.org/support/users/johnny5/)
 * (@johnny5)
 * [8 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/transient-explosion/#post-9418625)
 * What do the transients look like exactly? Redirection doesn’t use transients 
   itself, but I don’t know about indirectly.
 *  Thread Starter [ccarfi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ccarfi/)
 * (@ccarfi)
 * [8 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/transient-explosion/#post-9419527)
 * They look like this:
 * **Name:** _transient_a0486c0d1cxxxxxxxxxxc353831b7053
    **Expires In: **1503004238**
   Value: **200
 * **Name:** _transient_f4f0ce804d8bdc2xxxxxxxxxx0a53f5f
    **Expires In: **1503004204**
   Value: **404
 * etc.
 *  Plugin Author [John Godley](https://wordpress.org/support/users/johnny5/)
 * (@johnny5)
 * [8 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/transient-explosion/#post-9420115)
 * Yeah, I’m not seeing anything like that. This is not being caused by Redirection
   itself, and the only function it uses to achieve redirects is `wp_redirect`

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 * Last activity: [8 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/transient-explosion/#post-9420115)
 * Status: resolved