Thousands of empty maintenance.php.xxxx files

[damon18]

While I was doing an update from Revive 3.2.0 to 3.2.4 I noticed that there were over 25,000 files named maintenance.php.xxxx the xxxx is a sequential number and the files are empty.

A new file was written twice per hour at :03 and :18 (like 5:03 and 5:18) for a long time and I hadn't noticed them because they were stored above the public_html web folder where Revive is installed.

The installation is on a dedicated domain used only for Revive.

Any idea why that happened? They are still being generated, haven't done the upgrade yet.

Also, looking at the database, there are two tables with large amounts of records.

data_intermediate_ad has 362,734

data_summary_ad_hourly has 362,728

I've obviously got something screwed up here, although in the control panel under Maintenance > Maintenance it shows "Scheduled maintenance is running correctly".

[Erik Geurts]

In which folder are those files?

37 minutes ago, damon18 said:

Also, looking at the database, there are two tables with large amounts of records.

data_intermediate_ad has 362,734

data_summary_ad_hourly has 362,728

Those tables contain your ad server's statistics, they are supposed to be large (in big systems they can run into many millions of rows). 

[Ian]

You most likely have a cronjob running, with wget or so which automatically saves the file.

you could add to your wget command the -O flag to specify the save location for the file, which you can point to /dev/null, and your issue is solved.