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1. crazlunatic
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Every host I go with, they always say my CPU usage is too high. I'll tell you a bit about my site, please help me fix the problem:

   Plugins:
   Adsense Manager
   Akismet
   Cforms II
   Cystat
   Feedburner FeedSmith
   Full Text Feed
   Google Analyticor
   Google XML Sitemaps
   Gregarious
   gunnART Alphaindex
   HowtoGeek - Spam Filter
   JAW Popular Posts Widget
   Official Comments
   Optimal Title
   Popularity Contest
   Subscribe to Comments
   Text Link Ads
   Wp-pagenavi
   Wp Super Cache

   I need most of these plugins so I can't really disable them =(. I get about 5400+ pageviews daily. The site is http://vistarewired.com if that helps.

   Do I need to go on a semi-ded?

   Thanks for your help.

2. cstina
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Hi,

   It's probably wp-cron.php.

   If that file is running on a schedule, too often, a host will "freak out" because it can really smack their CPU usage, hard.

   You can disable wp-cron.php and set up a cron job for it, so you can moderate how often that file calls the server.

   If you use Cpanel, just go into Cron Jobs and enter the Command line to point to wp-cron.php, then tell the server (via the Cron Job Options) how often to call the server.

   Some people have had wp-cron.php calling the server every 15 seconds, WITHOUT REALIZING it was even happening... until their Host said "Hey, CPU is too high."

   Anyway, I have mine set to run once a day (in wee hours of morning/US time).

   I personally don't know of any other file that hits CPU as bad as wp-cron.

3. thelocomono
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   What do I enter in the command field that would point to wp-cron.php?

4. crazlunatic
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   What exactly does wp-cron.php do? And I have the same question as thelocomon. Is this file necessary?

5. spiff06
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   I've just been bitten by the same issue. My host shut off a wordpress folder because the CPU usage was hogging up the server. I had 16 active PHP processes, all apparently busy with index.php.

   Some threads point to shutting out the spawn_cron() call and replacing it with a regular system cron job (see here).

   Does anyone know for sure what is causing the CPU load (loop, timeout, resource access, crons spawning on top of one another)?

6. 7milesdown
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   how do we find out if wp-cron is in fact affecting CPU usage?

7. moshu
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   I understand your eagerness to find an answer... but posting on every 4-5-6 months old, related topic the same isuee - is not helpful.

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