Cron Jobs are getting crazy

[techtapole]

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Action Scheduler: 139 found; something may be wrong

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Hi
it started with 47 past due action, now it hitting the +100, i have disabled cron on wp-config, and used a plugin “easy cron”, but it seems like it does nothing, the list keeps growin, how do i stop that cron past action invasion ?

[dan3008]

I might be wrong, but I don’t think Cron is avalible on free plans

I dont know if the wordpress jobs use the standard Cron though

[techtapole]

Does that mean there is no way to stop that, if the cron is unavailable in the free plan why does it stack cron jobs ?

[dan3008]

I seem to remember reading somewhere, that there is a way to run the jobs on wordpress when visting pages. But I’ll have to leave confirmation of that to someone who’s got more experience of wordpress

@techtapole

if the cron is unavailable in the free plan why does it stack cron jobs

Becase Wordpress will keep adding jobs to the stack, but wont remove them until the server has run them. And since InfinityFree doesn’t support Cron jobs, they just stay in the list of jobs Wordpress wants completing.

Cron Job Feature is now disabled

As of today, the 9th August 2023, the Cron Jobs feature is disabled. In collaboration with iFastNet, we have determined that a large number of cron jobs were running a very frequently on invalid URLs, or sites that were not actively being used. This resulted in a lot of server power being spent on cron jobs that didn’t work, or were running on sites that were not actively being used. This had gotten so bad that some cron jobs dramatically overloaded some servers causing performance degradation …

[Greenreader9]

Try setting “DISABLE_WP_CRON” to “true” and delete your cron plugin.

You can also try manually loading /wp-cron.php to move the system aloung.

By default, WordPress does not need a cron job, it just runs those tasks on pageload. However configuring a cron plugin and/or telling WP there is a cron job setup when there is not one probably results in the backlog as WP does not run it on pageload to improve load time and performance.

[techtapole]

@Greenreader9

Try setting “DISABLE_WP_CRON” to “true” and delete your cron plugin.

Yes that’s done as i have said, and i installed the plugin right away to run the remaining crons, but all it did is stacking crons

@Greenreader9

You can also try manually loading /wp-cron.php to move the system aloung.

How to do that please ?

[Admin]

@techtapole

How to do that please ?

Simply going to http://techtapole.rf.gd/wp-cron.php will trigger the cron schedule to run.

[techtapole]

I did, is it normal to have a blank page ?

[Admin]

Yes, that’s normal I think. The wp-cron.php endpoint is not supposed to be accessed with a browser, it’s supposed to be run through cron. And when run through cron, it not generating output on a successful run is beneficial.