This might help: http://mnm.uib.es/gallir/posts/2005/03/12/178/
and I might be wrong, but as far as I know WordPress doesn’t do anything with CGI – I guess you mean sql requests?
AFAIK, WordPress doesn’t do anything with CGI. I have a huge site and for me, my server requests have actually gone down because I’m not using all those javascripts I used to use to do the same things that WordPress does automatically.
To hunt down the problem, I would look into the server logs or site reports to find out which files are being accessed. Look for javascripts, cgi files, images, and other call outs.
Some plugins can generate increased server activity, so if WordPress is involved directly, it could be through the use of those. Read through the plugin author’s documentation as those whose plugins make extra demands upon the server and database usually mention it. But in general, I doubt those are your problem.
If server activity is the issue, also check RSS feeds, pings, and other things that generate server activity, but all of this should show up in your logs.
forgive me….
i’m new to blogging, and trying to figure out how to post/create a new topic. on the support section of the wordpress site, i can’t find a ‘new post’ tab, or see anyway to post!!!!!
i could only find the reply button on posts that were already created,. so i decided to ask the question, and hope someone can tell me how i can post a new topic!!!
thanks
-bruce
bedouglas@earthlink.net
bdouglas – Pick one of the 7 items below the ‘main theme’ (whichever is approriate) and then at the bottom is ‘new topic in this forum’.
Don’t forget to search first though 🙂
IanD, Lorelle,
WP itself doesn’t do anything with CGI, but PHP does, depending on how it is set up on the server. Same is the case with me, my web host has PHP set up as a CGI processor, rather than ISAPI. So, depending on what exactly their WP scripts are set up to do, and the amount of traffic, then I can see how a heavy load can cause too much hits on the CGI.
May want to look into the Staticize plugin that generates a static cache of WP pages the first time they are requested, then serves up the cached pages until something is changed in the database (such as a new post, or an edit.)
Tg
Tg, thanks for the info, I had thought php and cgi were two independent things. Now I know that WordPress does do things with cgi [or can anyway 🙂 ]
btw – the link I posted earlier is to an apparently improved (i.e more efficient) Staticize based cache script.
