I haven’t added any new plugins, I updated a couple but I’m running the same plugins (I think almost all the same ones) on another site on the same server with no problems. I’m wondering if the issues that cropped up from the latest WP release have something to do with it ’cause I suspect this all started happening around the same time but just reached a point where everything started to fall over.  I don’t even have a caching plugin running right now because I can’t activate it either!

I don’t have access to reboot the server so I can’t do a damned thing till support gets back to me… right now I just want to sleep, it’s 6:30am now but with my site barely functioning I can’t! (Not your fault, just ranting)

I know that feeling. You have my sympathy.

if you have any other big plugins that could be temporarily deactivated so you can try the updates then it might work out. Then reactivate afterwards…

I tried removing (not just deactivating) all plugins, I install a couple and it’s fine, then i’ll try putting one or two more back (doesn’t seem to matter which ones) and suddenly my wp admin dies again and I have to ftp and delete the plugins again just so I can get back into the admin. 

Total Cache is one of the ones that seems to trigger it every time and even if it’s the only one I can’t get SP to install & activate either

is it set to ignore the wp page the forum is on?  it doesnt handle dynamic pages well…

Mr Papa said
is it set to ignore the wp page the forum is on?  it doesnt handle dynamic pages well…

Total Cache? Yes, I have exceptions set up for that … when the plugins are actually active…

I only mentioned total cache because you did…

Total Cache is one of the ones that seems to trigger it every time and even if it’s the only one I can’t get SP to install & activate either

maybe I misunderstood the point, but if total cache is ignoring the forum page (for all types of caching active), would think they would coexist…

we will be here should you hear from your host…  you still have issues with SP not active, is that still right?

Maybe a daft question – but have you tried downloading another copy of SP and uploading to your server just in case something got corrupted in the download process? Unusual and very rare but always possible. And can we also assume that all of your SP plugins are up to date?

I had to give in and get some sleep. I had an email from host this morning who found:

“You had an issue on your database, on wp-options > cron entry. This was loading 10MB each time someone loaded your site.”

So who knows WHAT caused that, but everything seems ok with all my plugins re-activated right now… crossing fingers it doesn’t happen again.

That’s scary. I must admit I have never been that keen on the way WP uses option records. But that is way over the top!

Ah, this is a known issue in wp for 4.3…  see the ticket:  https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/33423

and includes workaround to solve until 4.3.1. is available…

Thanks for letting me know, I’ve relayed that back to my host.

have not heard timetable for 4.3.1 yet…