Massive Server Load about moodle-local_cohortauto

[danmarsden]

what is set to 15minutes? - this plugin doesn't have any scheduled tasks that you can adjust like that - it makes changes on user action/events.

Can you please provide more information on what process is running slowly?

[wbuk]

Hi, yes we have it set as a CRON job that runs it every 15 minutes, we have now changed this to once a day in the early morning.
Is this unnecessary?

Please can I also as, we are using Moodle, 4, our sever provider is saying that it is down on the moodle website as only being compatible with Moodle 3, but we have used it with Moodle 4 for many months with no issues. So I can let them know, can you confirm that it does work with Moodle 4, or could this be the issue?

[danmarsden]

The sync users script is intended as a once off thing you can run on the cli to add existing users in the site based on your rules or if you change your rules after users have been created or if you have a process that inserts users directly into the db not using normal moodle apis. If you only use moodle ui or apis to insert users and your rules don't change you shouldn't need to run it on cron at all. Running it once a day would probably be enough(but we don't tend to run it at all as the clients that use it don't change their rules)

I'm not aware of any issues using it in 4.0

[wbuk]

Can I PM you a link from our service provider, who needs you to check 1 line of code that is sucking up 68% of the server resoures.

[wbuk]

Here is the code
840 xxxxxx 20 0 893824 456384 13120 R 68.6 0.7 10:17.01 /opt/plesk/php/7.4/bin/php /var/www/vhosts/xxxx/httpdocs/moodle/local/cohortauto/cli/sync_users.php

[danmarsden]

I don't engage with people "privately" to provide support/help with moodle unless it's part of a commercial agreement sorry. as mentioned above - we don't run this task on cron at all in our use of this plugin, we only run it ad-hoc as required - but the ruleset is static and doesn't change.

If your ruleset is changing regularly - just get them to set it to run once a day overnight. If your ruleset doesn't change, don't run it on cron at all.

[wbuk]

Thank you.