Title: WP_OPTIONS Table causing issue Last modified: February 11, 2022 --- # WP_OPTIONS Table causing issue * [shashikant91](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shashikant91/) * (@shashikant91) * [4 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp_options-table-causing-issue/) * Hi Team, * We have a website [https://www.pcstudio.in/](https://www.pcstudio.in/) which almost twice a day throws an error “Error Establishing Database connection”. For this to be fixed we have to restart either the mysql server or the complete server (currently using VPS). * Upon identifying the error, we could see that WP_OPTIONS table in PHPMYADMIN is causing this error/issue. Once the table is repaired from PHPMYADMIN page then this would be fixed temporarily for sometime. * But then it again repeats after sometime or atleast twice or thrice a day. * Can someone help to give this a permanent fix? * Let me know what can be done. * Thanks Shashikant Viewing 10 replies - 1 through 10 (of 10 total) * [Lucas Carvalho](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lucasscarvalho/) * (@lucasscarvalho) * [4 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp_options-table-causing-issue/#post-15356557) * Hi Shashikant, I suggest you analyse the WP_OPTIONS table, before repair, to find the cause of the issue. * Thread Starter [shashikant91](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shashikant91/) * (@shashikant91) * [4 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp_options-table-causing-issue/#post-15359498) * Hi [@lucasscarvalho](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lucasscarvalho/) * I have analyzed the WP_OPTIONS table before repairing it as per your suggestion when the issue reoccured. * Below is the output. Let me know if there is any permanent fix for this. * [https://prnt.sc/26uvhac](https://prnt.sc/26uvhac) * Thanks Shashikant * Thread Starter [shashikant91](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shashikant91/) * (@shashikant91) * [4 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp_options-table-causing-issue/#post-15361422) * Also, I have installed WP_OPTIMIZE plugin & have optimized all the suggestion it has given in the list. * But in the tables section it shows few tables/plugins aren’t in use or installed on the website. Can we delete/remove such tables from the DB? * Total size of the database is more than 2GB. * WP_OPTIMIZE plugin also shows the option to convert that particular table to INNODB. Can we convert one particular table to innodb? Will this affect anything? * [Lucas Carvalho](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lucasscarvalho/) * (@lucasscarvalho) * [4 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp_options-table-causing-issue/#post-15363147) * You can convert this table to InnoDB, just make sure to create a full database backup before conversion. One or more plugins maybe is saving lots of transient data in this table, causing this issue. You can also optmize your tables using“ Optimize table” function of PHPMyadmin. * After those changes, if the problem persists, I suggest you to search which plugin could be writing lots of data in this table. * Thread Starter [shashikant91](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shashikant91/) * (@shashikant91) * [4 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp_options-table-causing-issue/#post-15363239) * [@lucasscarvalho](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lucasscarvalho/) * > You can convert this table to InnoDB, just make sure to create a full database > backup before conversion. * Sure. Let me try this by taking a full DB backup. Actually taking backup is also increasing memory usage & server stops working. But will try. * > One or more plugins maybe is saving lots of transient data in this table, causing > this issue. > You can also optmize your tables using “Optimize table” function > of PHPMyadmin. * I tried to optimize tables from PHPMYADMIN but when I am trying to do that it happens & later few tables from my DB are missing & the 2.2GB of database is coming down to around 500mb & site stops running. I had to put the backup back( restore) and run my site again. * > After those changes, if the problem persists, I suggest you to search which > plugin could be writing lots of data in this table. * Guess this is the only option left. Any plugin or method which can help me identify this? * Thanks * [Lucas Carvalho](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lucasscarvalho/) * (@lucasscarvalho) * [4 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp_options-table-causing-issue/#post-15363254) * Shashikant, After tried those solutions, I think your case should be analysed by a full stack developer on a staging server. Unfortnely I can’t see a simple way to reply a solution for you, without doing that. * Thread Starter [shashikant91](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shashikant91/) * (@shashikant91) * [4 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp_options-table-causing-issue/#post-15374162) * [@lucasscarvalho](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lucasscarvalho/) * Could you please help with one last thing here? * [https://prnt.sc/26xj8v1](https://prnt.sc/26xj8v1) * Please check the screenshot. There is one particular table in the database which is of huge size & that particular plugin isn’t installed on my website. * Can we delete this table? * Also, I have converted the WP_OPTIONS table into INNODB & currently everything is working fine. * Planning to convert all big sized tables into INNODB from MYISAM * [Lucas Carvalho](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lucasscarvalho/) * (@lucasscarvalho) * [4 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp_options-table-causing-issue/#post-15376241) * Happy to hear that conversion to InnoDB worked! * About the table “_user_activity”, yes you should delete, if you don’t use this plugin anymore. * Take a look at this plugin: [https://br.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-optimize/](https://br.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-optimize/). It can be useful to your case. * Thread Starter [shashikant91](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shashikant91/) * (@shashikant91) * [4 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp_options-table-causing-issue/#post-15376422) * [@lucasscarvalho](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lucasscarvalho/) * Thanks for your revert & help. * I have deleted that Table & for now everything seems fine for now 🙂 * Also, we are using the same plugin which you had suggested above. Only then we could identify there are many such tables which are not being used & those are of old plugins which we haven’t used from an year back. * Anyways for now things are working fine. Let me observe this for a while. * For now the only issue is the server load which is not fully down yet. * Thanks anyways Shashikant * [Lucas Carvalho](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lucasscarvalho/) * (@lucasscarvalho) * [4 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp_options-table-causing-issue/#post-15376566) * You’re welcome! Viewing 10 replies - 1 through 10 (of 10 total) The topic ‘WP_OPTIONS Table causing issue’ is closed to new replies. ## Tags * [wp_options](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/wp_options/) * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) * 10 replies * 2 participants * Last reply from: [Lucas Carvalho](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lucasscarvalho/) * Last activity: [4 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp_options-table-causing-issue/#post-15376566) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics