Title: 100% CPU usage
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# 100% CPU usage

 *  [funsail](https://wordpress.org/support/users/funsail/)
 * (@funsail)
 * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/100-cpu-usage/)
 * I can’t be 100% sure it’s this plugin’s fault, but I don’t have many visitors(
   <100/day) and I don’t have other things that would be using CPU when there are
   no visitors.
 * My cpanel at random times show 100% CPU or 1GB (100%) RAM used.
    It would randomly
   fix itself. Could it be the file checking of this thing? I always get file altered
   warnings and when I look at the log it says no files were altered.
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/better-wp-security/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/better-wp-security/)

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 *  [Handoko](https://wordpress.org/support/users/handoko-zhang/)
 * (@handoko-zhang)
 * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/100-cpu-usage/#post-3480455)
 * My experiences told me, these items may consume lots of your server resources(
   RAM and/or CPU load):
    – File Change Detection (under: menu > Security > Intrution
   Detection) – Enable Scheduled Backups (under: menu > Security > Database Backup)
 * You may need to disable them.
 *  Thread Starter [funsail](https://wordpress.org/support/users/funsail/)
 * (@funsail)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/100-cpu-usage/#post-3480520)
 * Definitely an issue of File Change Detection
    This needs to be turned off as 
   a ‘red’ item in dashboard every time I update I have to init the plugin again.
   I check the ‘red’ item in dashboard and turn them on. My site dies.

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 * Last activity: [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/100-cpu-usage/#post-3480520)
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