Rechecking the queue times out

[markjaquith]

Rechecking the spam queue is done without a limit, and above a certain number of comments, it times out.

Instead, it should use an AJAX system where X comments at a time (suggestion: 5-10) are checked, and a progress bar is displayed.

[josephscott]

For clarification, Mark is referring to the 'Check for Spam' button.

[cfinke]

The recheck no longer tries to process all comments at once, but even the batching does occasionally have issues. From this ticket: ​https://wordpress.org/support/topic/timeout-of-admin-ajax/

Our platform has 1,000+ pending comments. When trying to check for spam, the admin-ajax running instance might not make it until timeout, and ocassionally fail, with 504. As i see in the source code, the limit per request of comments to admin-ajax is hardcoded to 100. It would really be nice to have this configurable via admin panel, or something like that. I really don’t think extending execution limit of php scripts is the right choice here 🙂