Duplicate image stats overload database on big sites
Dashboard duplicate-image statistics run heavy database queries that push MariaDB CPU to several hundred percent on large media libraries.
Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.
3 public reports · first reported 9 May 2026 · last reported 14 September 2026
What's going wrong
Owners of large WordPress sites, with hundreds of thousands of image attachments, report that opening the plugin dashboard or updating it triggers duplicate-image counting queries.
AI-assisted: written with the help of AI from the reports. The idea report has the full summary.
In the idea report
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- The products the 3 reports are about, and how many came each month.
- Related problems.
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