TPC! Memory Usage for WordPress

TPC! Memory Usage Dashboard Widget

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TPC! Memory Usage allows WordPress administrators to view the current and peak memory usage of the application, have e-mail notifications sent when memory usage exceeds the set level, and provides a detailed system information screen. This is extremely helpful when testing new plugins, or if there are a lot of modifications, plugins, or large language files. A strategic dashboard widget will provide a snapshot which includes the following information:

Monitor WordPress memory usage at various points
Ability to add custom checkpoints (WordPress actions where memory usage is recorded)
Log memory usage to files/database (checkpoints, when usage exceeds threshold, both, or none)
Keep track of all-time highest memory usage (shows date and peak usage)
E-mail notifications when memory usage exceeds set level w/ number of database queries
Completes basic security check to help prevent attacks and malware injections
View current memory usage
View current peak memory usage
Dashboard widget with memory meter
PHP memory limit
WordPress memory limit (defined in wp-settings.php)
System information screen for monitoring server, MySQL, PHP, and WordPress statuses and settings
Version: 0.9
Last Release: 1/16/2010

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#1 written by HD DSLR
March 4, 2010 - 6:18 pm

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Nice plugin
#2 written by Brett Bumeter
April 9, 2010 - 6:47 pm

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slow in response, wasn’t subscribed to the comment thread or something.

I’ve got 30 separate wp installations on a shared server.

Back when I made the comment, I was getting slightly (very slightly) different results from site to site. But these days with the latest version, I’m seeing the same exact numbers, which makes me think I’m getting a server level number.

not good or bad, just important to understand.

So overall that leaves me with two things in my wish list, which maybe this plugin can some day cover and maybe not.

1. Would love to see an option to share information back to you or to some service where we could start to see some performance stats on many different hosts, configurations, systems etc. which might help people better benchmark what is a good server or php configuration etc.

2. Would love to see some details that might help me understand something along the lines of active services (like how much a plugin is running up the system so that I could trouble shoot bad or resource heavy plugins). Not something I need all the time, thank god, but in a pinch, sure would help.

3. Where’s your donate button? I can afford to pay for development, but can definitely tip (hopefully along with lots of other people to help fuel your fire!)
#3 written by Chris Strosser
April 9, 2010 - 6:52 pm

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Brett,

I absolutely LOVE your ideas. I might want to talk with you about this more once I start delving into the next version, if you’d be open to that. Great feedback.

(As for donate button: Settings page, upper-right corner)

Thanks!
Chris
#4 written by aatkco
July 1, 2010 - 12:29 am

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Hi Chris,
I liked this plugin and I really have very limited memory so I have to keep an eye on the usage. After installing the plugin the Admin panel direction changed from RTL ( Arabic ) to LTR, font changed from Tahoma to the default English font which isn’t suitable for Arabic scripts, And the appearance damaged a lot, I can contribute and Translate the po file but please change it to RTL and solve everything If possible .
#5 written by Gunther
July 8, 2010 - 5:06 am

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Thank you for this really nice plugin. But I have a problem with the e-mail notification: I’m running WordPress with a 40M memory_limit but the plugin sends me an e-mail, everytime wordpress uses more than 32M

I changed the value in tcp-memcore.php on line 102 to 40 but that won’t solve my case.
#6 written by Chris Strosser
July 27, 2010 - 10:35 pm

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Hi Gunther,

You can change this setting within the options interface inside the WordPress admin panel. Hope that helps!

Thanks,
Chris
#7 written by kamal
September 28, 2010 - 7:12 am

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Thanks for the plugin,
In the “setting” area, in “Notifications” tab, i set the mail of server admin in the “Recipients” field to Notify him if memory usage exceeds, but he don’t receive any notification, but me the “admin” of the webiste YES.
pls how can i notify the admin about the exceed of memory?
Thanks
#8 written by lucia
September 28, 2010 - 4:46 pm

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I installed the plugins. I get emails whenever memory usage is exceeds 16M. It comes in pulses. But how do I figure out what’s causing the memory usage so I can fix it?

I’m not getting any reports. I chose “wrote to log when memory exceeds 16 M”. I chose “file”. Where are the logs? Should I check database?
#9 written by ddeconin
October 16, 2010 - 5:48 pm

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Hi,

Nice plugin !

I added define(‘WP_MEMORY_LIMIT’, ’64M’); to my wp-config.php , but In the Dashboard I get :
WP Memory Limit: 32M
PHP Memory Limit: 64M

Also, what do the Load Averages: 1.03 1.97 2.5 actually mean ?

Regards,

D.
#10 written by Winter
October 25, 2010 - 5:21 pm

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I have having the same issues as many people who have commented here. I’d like to know exactly what is causing the issue and cant find answers on the net about this. This plugin doesn’t look like it can tell me which plugin is taking up so much memory or bring my server down.
#11 written by Chris Strosser
October 29, 2010 - 1:22 pm

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Hey Winter,

You can figure out how much memory a specific plugin is using by adding new actions/hooks. If the plugin doesn’t have any actions, you can add some at the various points where you want to make measurements.

Thanks,
Chris
#12 written by Chris Strosser
October 29, 2010 - 1:23 pm

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Hey D.,

Check out this article on Wikipedia… should answer your questions about load averages.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Load_%28computing%29

Sincerely,
Chris S.
#13 written by Deborah Hanchey
December 22, 2010 - 12:59 pm

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Under System Overview/Security, I had several Warnings! and Problem! messages.

Where do I go to correct these?

I have looked everywhere for months for the answer to my memory overage problem. This is the first site that effectively addresses the problem. You’re on to something here, keep at it!
#14 written by enostrum
January 5, 2011 - 5:43 am

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Great Plugin!!
I have a problem actually, I have a hosted website in 1and1.
I believe the memory limit is 40 and that is what your plugin says. I have set a WP limit of 64M.
However, the System Overview graph and the percentage are made of a 256M scale so I have a little percentage (27,17MB -11%- with 15 plugins by the way).
How can I change the 256M scale to 40M??
Thanks!
#15 written by Kevin Davidson
February 19, 2011 - 10:42 pm

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I have two WordPress 3.0.5 blogs with two different hosting companies. I set them up so that each has the same plug-ins installed: Akismet and TPC! Memory Usage, and both to use the WordPress “default” theme based on Kubrik.

When I display the dashboard for one, TPC! says the peak memory is 22MB and the other one says 15 MB.

So is this a real result or some kind of a quirk with how PHP tracks memory usage? (The small usage site is PHP 5.2.14 and the other 5.2.15.) If it’s real, which number is out of line?

Thanks for the totally useful plug-in.
#16 written by Chris Strosser
March 4, 2011 - 5:57 pm

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This could happen for a variety of reasons. You are correct that the version difference can certainly make a difference, but granted you are using two different hosting companies, it is likely that they also have different PHP configurations. Even with dedicated (or virtual dedicated) hosting environments, you’ll find subtle differences. There could even be differences between operating system versions. As far as PHP versioning is concerned, see the release logs for potential performance changes:

http://php.net/releases/5_2_14.php
http://php.net/releases/5_2_15.php

I hope this helps!

-Chris
#17 written by enostrum
December 8, 2011 - 12:00 pm

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Where can I update the scale of the graphics, it is always fixed to 256MB
Thanks