Server Overload....

I'm having some serious issues with the sitemap generator. I'm currently on a Shared Hosting Plan. I have it set so that the sitemap is generated every day at 2 am. Last night was the first time it was run. I wake up this morning to find that my host provider had to temporarily disable my forums because the vbseo.php was severely overloading the server. He said on a server that normaly sees loads around 2-3, the load was up to 80+. He also said there were hundreds of instances of vbseo.php open, like they were randomly not shutting down. Have you guys seen this problem before? What could be the cause?

Kyle

vbseo.php isn't part of the sitemap generator. That's vbSEO. Are you running vbSEO also?

Hello Kyle,

please check your task configuration vB Scheduler - perhaps you set "minutes" option to "*", which means to execute it every minute from 2am to 3am (it should be set to "0" or any other non-* value).

Yes I am, however I'm convinced that it has to do with the Sitemap Generator because my host said nothing was wrong till after 2 am. Plus I had already has vbSEO running for a day beforehand, and nothing was wrong.

Kyle

You know, I did have that set to *. That could definatley be the problem. I'll try that out and see if it helps.

Kyle

Yep, tested and that fixed it. Thank you for the fast response.

Kyle

You are welcome!