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Opened 5 years ago

Last modified 3 months ago

#47292 new defect (bug)

Heartbeat API cause Apache/PHP to exhaust memory

Reported by: mailandguardian's profile mailandguardian Owned by:
Milestone: Awaiting Review Priority: normal
Severity: critical Version: 5.2
Component: Administration Keywords: needs-patch
Focuses: performance Cc:

Description

WordPress 5.2
Apache/2.4 MPM Prefork (Debian9)
PHP 7.0 Also tried upgrading to PHP 7.2

What you expected to happen:
Apache memory footprint should remain stable.

Steps to reproduce:
Install click-to-deploy-images-wordpress-ha from Google Marketplace.
Upgrade to WordPress 5.2
Import and edit some posts in WordPress Admin
Observe Client side: Examine headers in Chrome Console specifically /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php
Observe Server side on Admin VM : Monitor apache memory with: free -m or htop

Tried:
Upgrading to PHP 7.2.
Tweaks in wp-config.php
define( 'AUTOSAVE_INTERVAL', 600 );
define( 'WP_POST_REVISIONS', false );
define( 'MEDIA_TRASH', true );
define( 'DISABLE_WP_CRON', true );
define( 'WP_MEMORY_LIMIT', '256M' );

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Change History (3)

#1 @SergeyBiryukov
5 years ago

  • Component changed from General to Administration
  • Focuses performance added

Related: #26050

#2 @pbearne
3 months ago

Is this still an issue?

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