This is from the host provider:
Your account is still causing issues, rarely but “hard”. Every now and then he’s getting like 15-20 .php processes, that would immediately raise the load from 8 to 20. If his processes are not killed, they’ll slowly stop “rebuilding” and dying, bringing the load back to a normal value.
Here is a list of the processes.
” PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
2377 profe27 25 0 48972 38m 4184 R 23 1.0 0:01.80 php
2449 profe27 25 0 39428 29m 4060 R 23 0.7 0:01.20 php
2447 profe27 25 0 41672 31m 4108 R 22 0.8 0:01.32 php
2426 profe27 25 0 49752 39m 4192 R 21 1.0 0:01.65 php
28665 mysql 15 0 144m 103m 3704 S 20 2.6 226:11.11 mysqld
2342 profe27 23 0 46300 36m 4196 R 20 0.9 0:01.91 php
2421 profe27 25 0 49236 39m 4160 R 19 1.0 0:01.70 php
2433 profe27 25 0 37000 27m 4084 R 17 0.7 0:01.13 php
2480 muchf3 25 0 19544 10m 3988 R 16 0.2 0:01.19 php
2551 gilma4 20 0 21488 12m 4080 R 11 0.3 0:00.34 php
2381 profe27 24 0 49608 39m 4180 R 10 1.0 0:01.80 php
NewSaga,
I have this problem too and have started using Wp cache to ease the load….but there are issues with Wp cache if you run PHP 4 which I constantly struggle with. I’ve heard that PHP 5 is the way to go to hopefully solve issues between PHP and Wp cache…but I digress…
I’m not sure what else can be done. Frankly, (and I know other WP users have the similar concerns) I’m surprised WordPress doesn’t address this. As WP blogs get bigger this will become a big issue. WordPress is a resource hog in this way.
My hosting guy worked on this issue for awhile and had no answers for me except that a good cache system would help alot. WordPress’ built-in cache is worthless.
Any other thoughts on this anyone??
Hi there –
I just had this problem too — right in the middle of it as we speak. Host is working on some security from their end. I am going to turn off some plug-ins in hope that they will reduce server load, starting with CyStats, and BackUpWordPress. Host just reported he is not seeing any more “spikes”, and my pages are all loading a lot faster (all week our sites have been loading slower than dial-up, on two different DSL services). My hunch is that it was CyStats that was the culprit. Good luck all.
Yours, Scott
NewSaga, rather than ask for a list of plugins (there are dozens and dozens), it would be easier if you told us which plugins you’re using.