wordpress creating too many connections

  • schwende

    (@schwende)


    5 years, 11 months ago

    I have a server running multiple wp sites. One site is creating a ton of connections to the mysql db. Enough so that the wp server is almost completely running our of ram and swap, and cpu usage is crazy. This is basically rendering all wp sites inoperable. Once I renamed the wp-config.php for this instance, everything cleared up and worked as normal, except for the 1 wp instance.
    What would cause this? It did not start till this morning.

    I am running rhel 6.10 for both wp and mysql servers. Mysql is 5.5, and wp is latest update.

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  • JNashHawkins

    (@jnashhawkins)

    5 years, 11 months ago

    I’m gonna hazard a guess that you shut down the best site you have…

    I’d want to know how much traffic that site is getting compared to the others and then, if it was justified, I’d be moving it to its own server or moving the databases to a different server or else splitting the load somehow.

    There are probably a thousand ways to fix this problem, enhance everything you have a bit, and keep that site up and running for a few dollars more a month.

    Unless something is broken or that site is being attacked I’d be very happy to have your problem.

    Thread Starter schwende

    (@schwende)

    5 years, 11 months ago

    Oh, it is by far not the best site, nor most visited. Plus, it just started that morning, all of a sudden. So, either there were some sort of ddos happening, or a content manager is having some sort of issue. Pretty sure it isn’t a ddos, so it has to be something happening between the wp instance and its associated database.

    Thread Starter schwende

    (@schwende)

    5 years, 11 months ago

    Anyone else have any thoughts on this?

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