Slow Admin help

[freedude]

Hello everyone

I know that the slow admin subject has been treated in the past but I didn't find the answer to my problem in the given solutions.
All of my admin pages are suddenly very, very slow !
I have done everything suggested : Gzip comp, turned off all that was mentioned in various links, checked with my host, optimized and repair tables, clear caches... you name it (well, the only thing I didn't do was clearing the debug log) !!!
My site's speed is ok (for a shared environment : slow sometimes).
Help, help, help...
Thanks in advance to all

[mc12345678]

Hello everyone

I know that the slow admin subject has been treated in the past but I didn't find the answer to my problem in the given solutions.
All of my admin pages are suddenly very, very slow !
I have done everything suggested : Gzip comp, turned off all that was mentioned in various links, checked with my host, optimized and repair tables, clear caches... you name it (well, the only thing I didn't do was clearing the debug log) !!!
My site's speed is ok (for a shared environment : slow sometimes).
Help, help, help...
Thanks in advance to all

Couple of things come to mind, what is the setting for your cache in the configure.php files? do you have logging turned on in the configuration logging section? (Suggest no on that one).

Any .htaccess redirect conflicts?

Just a few ideas...

[freedude]

Hi and thank you for these suggestions.
My configure.php setting is to "none".
Here are my admin logging settings :

Store Page Parse Time false
Log Destination /home/green374/public_html/cache/page_parse_time.log
Log Date Format %d/%m/%Y %H:%M:%S
Display The Page Parse Time false
Store Database Queries false

Also and this may give you a hint : when I try to open the corresponding log destination cache folder (...public_html/cache) : it keeps on fetching but does not open (folder's size is about 100 mo+) !!??

Thanks in advance and have a great day.

[freedude]

Also, by copying the cache folder to another location : it seems to be containing mydebug files.
I have tried to clear the logging files using the admin tool and it spins forever as well.
Can I delete the cache folder that won't open ???

[mc12345678]

Also, by copying the cache folder to another location : it seems to be containing mydebug files.
I have tried to clear the logging files using the admin tool and it spins forever as well.
Can I delete the cache folder that won't open ???

It is supposed to contain the debug files (when generated), and they should be reviewed (copy of is sufficient).

Yes can delete and recreate the cache folder.

[mc12345678]

Sorry to say this, but I can't remember if there is an .htaccess file normally in that directory. May need to compare with a backup or fresh copy.

Generally speaking the existence of files in the cache directory should have no effect on the code, but it seems that the system slows down when heavily populated in the versions at least pre 1.5.1.

[freedude]

Hi everyone and thanks a lot MC

SOLVED !!!
I simply deleted the public_html cache folder which was containing debug log files and my admin went back to normal !!!
I did not recreate a new cache folder and it was not automatically generated : there is no more cache folder in this directory.
The size of the folder was 100+ mo : it doesn't seem heavy... is it ?
I checked the content of the folder from previous backups and it has been containing the same error for a long time without affecting my admin until recently !!!???
I still don't understand why a simple log could have done that but anyways : everything is fine now.
Hope this will help someone and thanks again, Freedude.

[mc12345678]

Hi everyone and thanks a lot MC

SOLVED !!!
I simply deleted the public_html cache folder which was containing debug log files and my admin went back to normal !!!
I did not recreate a new cache folder and it was not automatically generated : there is no more cache folder in this directory.
The size of the folder was 100+ mo : it doesn't seem heavy... is it ?
I checked the content of the folder from previous backups and it has been containing the same error for a long time without affecting my admin until recently !!!???
I still don't understand why a simple log could have done that but anyways : everything is fine now.
Hope this will help someone and thanks again, Freedude.

Glad that you are able to login quickly again, but you are hurting if 1) you don't restore a cache directory and 2) fix the problem that is populating the folder indicating that there is a problem with the site... Now, if something else happens you will have no notification of the issue and the problem will continue without you knowing. Not recreating the directory is an irresponsible lack of action. It's nearly equivalent to continuing to keep the site operational, customers placing orders and ignoring the emails that are sent and order confirmation. Afterall, itmakes things easier and faster to completely ignore that information...