Did you add some kind of Google analytics script to the WP Forum page? I am seeing a script error where normally there is page content.

Brandon C said
Did you add some kind of Google analytics script to the WP Forum page? I am seeing a script error where normally there is page content.

I just edited my post with more info. 

Where are you seeing a script error?

I did add Google analytics script to various pages on my site, but not the forum page. Actually I did, I didn’t see it as it was in visual instead of text mode. I have removed it just now.

I temporarily deactivated the forums, because I noticed our ram usage on our server shot way up to almost the max. It has since gone down. 

Is there anything associated with the forums that would cause the ram usage to spike up so much and what I can do to leviate it? Otherwise, I may have to find something else in the meantime :/

Thanks.

About the only thing would be if you are showing an inordinate amount of forums, topics or posts on a page…  the defaults for topics and posts are quite small, but on group view, how many forums do you have?

I don’t have very many forums. 3 groups and 8 forums total. And max topics and post view is 25 each.

Right, no issue with number of forums… the 25 topics and posts are more than we use for the default, but still not excessive… certainly any capable server should handle… try a few less and see if any difference – I doubt it (I run bigger than that on one site)…

what kind of avatars are you allowing? gravatars? are you using the gravatar caching plugin?

I thought the default was 30? That was the first time I lowered it to 25. I’ll try lowering it to 20 and see.

Gravatars are low on the list, I prefer people to upload their own. And no, not using a gravatar caching plugin.

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For right now it seems to have leveled off. Not sure what happened, but the error I had with WordPress in one of my earlier posts is not longer happening either, so I don’t know if that was related or not. So for now,I’ll keep an eye on it and see what happens.

not sure memory related, but every gravatar has to communicate with an external server… our gravatar cache plugin locally caches theme and saves the http requests…

our default topics per page is 12… our default posts per page is 20… but really, should not be a huge difference unless the server is resource limited (ie shared hosting)…

please let us know how it goes…

Sure thing. Everything was fine. I disabled stuff and slowly added things one by one and found the culprit to the forums slowing down. It was the File Uploader with Plupload SP Plugin. After about 10-15 minutes of reactivating it, the forums started slowing down and our ram usage went WAY up.

So just something to look into I suppose. No idea why it would do that, or if it’s conflicting with something else, but it was really strange and scary!

Thanks!

All by itself as a component it can’t have any real effect. In fact t just doesn’t do anything! so are people making a lot of use of it?

Is there any chance you could take a look in your server php error log to see if there are any errors that get repeated over and over and over that might be Sp related?

Andy is correct… the file uploader plugin does nothing until a button is pressed…  loading its minimal js/css shouldnt affect anything either…