That was my understanding as well.  This is also a problem when the number
of comments is displayed even if the comments themselves are not.  I'm using
a custom theme but I don't think I made any alterations to the comments
file.  It's possible that a plugin is responsible but although I find that
unlikely I haven't attempted to repeat this problem on a fresh install.

For the moment I'll leave everything as is.  It will take a while for things
to build up to the state they were in and when that time comes I'll just run
a query on the database to clear the spam messages again.

On 9 November 2010 02:24, Caius Durling <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 30 Oct 2010, at 18:01, Jonathan Street wrote:
>
> I was on the IRC channel yesterday trying to figure out why habari was
> causing the processes on my apache server to reach ~80Mb and due to some
> less than perfect settings the whole server to freeze up under relatively
> little load.  Although several people tried to help and offered several
> useful comments we weren't able to identify the problem.  I've taken another
> look today and have finally been able to figure out what the problem is.
>
> I had initially thought it was every page causing the problem but with a
> considerable amount of trial and error I stumbled onto the discovery that it
> was only one blog post and any page that referenced it.  Fetching most pages
> used ~6Mb of memory as measured by *memory_get_peak_usage *but this one
> blog post would use ~63Mb.  It would also take considerably longer to load
> than other pages (>10s).  Using xdebug and kcachegrind I noticed that most
> of the time was spent getting and setting Comment objects.
>
> Looking at the comments in the database I realised that a) I had a lot of
> spam comments that needed deleting and b) the vast majority were on this one
> post.  Deleting the spam comments seems to have fixed the problem.  Memory
> usage drops back down to ~6Mb and requesting the page is faster as well.
>
> Hopefully this will be useful to someone else in the future.
>
>
> This sounds like it's pulling spam comments out when viewing a blog post -
> or your theme is doing so. That kind of filtering should be done by the
> database, so you should only be using ~6MB of memory whether you've got 0
> spam comments or 5000.
>
> Something to check.
>
> C
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