Comments on: Sitemap Generator WordPress Plugin Hits Server Memory Limits

By: shabooty

shabooty — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 02:49:23 +0000

thanks for this information.
had this issue today. i upped the memory limit and it worked. though, i also complained to Dreamhost that i too have that 90 mb limit, but i am on PS, with way more allotted than 90 mb, so i just emailed them asking that’s up with that.

By: dakranii

dakranii — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 20:26:35 +0000

Great post, I really appreciate this information.

Our site was getting pulled by our host on several occasions and I couldn’t figure out what was causing such large memory spikes. Going through the error log this time I kept seeing googlesitemapgenerator as an issue and found your post explaining this memory usage.

HUGE help. Now I know what my options are. Keep using this plugin and upgrade our server, or find an alternative to this plugin that might not take up so much memory. Given that I doubt I’ll find that and that my site keeps growing, it looks like upgrading might be the reasonable option.

Retroone, your comment is completely wrong.

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By: Albatol Network

Albatol Network — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 23:40:32 +0000

Great info but i think the problem only on shared server because i has this issues before and my host keep complaining about memory usage..
when i moved to another host they never complained even though the usage was the same but later on they did so had to change the plugin and use differnet one instead of moving to expensive vps hosting,
but overall small shared server hosting company will complain about anything not as the large ones.
thanks again for the info

By: livasde

livasde — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 07:07:32 +0000

Hello,
I have a problem with this plugin. The sitemap generated by it for my site has 120 URLs.If i make a sitemap with other software it says 154 URLs. I compared the sitemaps and it looks that this sitemap doesn’t include pagination.Ex:www.abc.com- is included but it doesn’t include http://www.abc.com/q/page/2…www.abc.com/q/page/6.Any idea why? Thanks.

By: WebbyThoughts

WebbyThoughts — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 13:27:21 +0000

I’ve done a couple XML coding projects in the past and they always seem to use a shocking amount of memory. Is that what is happening with this plugin?

I’ve never noticed that the plugins page in the admin section shows the time and memory used and a bunch of other statuses.

That’s nice for trouble shooting.

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By: Balaji

Balaji — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 15:15:06 +0000

there is something wrong also with the latest GD Star ratings.

By: Baz L

Baz L — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 03:22:47 +0000

@Retroone: You need to calm down. No one is trying to deny the value of this plugin. And it’s not that he isn’t allowed to have over 25 MB. If you had read the post and saw the screen shots you would have noted that dreamhost allows 90 MB.

Again, if you’d read the post, you would have seen where the dreamhost tech explained the scripts are terminated due to total usage and not individual. So this site is just the one that happens to tip it over the edge.

My site has only 223 posts and this same plugin reports that it uses 33 MB to generate my sitemap.

The “problem” (if you want to call it that. Frankly, I see this post as merely informative) is that shared hosts overcrowd their servers.

It’s not the fault of the plugin author, not the fault of the blog owner for “his setup”.

By: QuickOnlineTips

QuickOnlineTips — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 15:13:17 +0000

@Linn – that is a limitation of shared hosting.

@Tinh – it depends on hiw much memory your host allows and how memory intensive other sites on your server are.

@deuts – VPS is the way to go when the site becomes large. Most excellent plugins will consume too much memory on larger sites.

@zulfikar- this problem is related to site size, as larger sitemaps will require more memory to generate sitemaps.

@Retroone – Firstly this is an excellent plugin. There is no bug in the plugin, so author was not contacted. I agree it is our hosting issue and this article explains how most sites on shared hosting can edit their settings and keep using this essential plugin.