Title: 58% cpu usage
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# 58% cpu usage

 *  Resolved [hitmoments](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hitmoments/)
 * (@hitmoments)
 * [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/58-cpu-usage/)
 * Recently after updating wordpress 2.8.4 version My server admin found that My
   website is using more then 60% of CUP usage of the server and that affects all
   the other website which are hosted on the reseller account of the server…
    has
   anyone faced this situation with wordpress 2.8.4? Currently our server admin 
   as diaabled the account of our website which is using more then 60% of server
   memory. Any solution by which the server memory is reduced?

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 *  [Samuel B](https://wordpress.org/support/users/samboll/)
 * (@samboll)
 * [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/58-cpu-usage/#post-1200617)
 * reduce amount of plugins used
    use a caching plugin [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-super-cache/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-super-cache/)
 * review
    [http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Optimization](http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Optimization)
 *  [fleetadmiralj](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fleetadmiralj/)
 * (@fleetadmiralj)
 * [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/58-cpu-usage/#post-1200949)
 * Same problem here. My site was suspended for using 5.5x the allowable CPU and
   memory on the server over the weekend. Also using 2.8.4. I’ve been using wordpress
   on this server for over 2 years now and never got a warning or anything before
   about CPU usage.
 * I’m waiting to hear back from the server about what specifics they can give me
   at this point. I’ll probably use WP Super Cache once I can actually access my
   site again. At first I thought my site might have been hacked, but might this
   just be a WP hogging problem?
 *  [bolonki](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bolonki/)
 * (@bolonki)
 * [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/58-cpu-usage/#post-1200963)
 * My dedicated server had an enormous spike in CPU usage and load after upgrading
   to WP 2.84, as [you can see in this graph](http://img6.imageshack.us/i/loadcpu.png/).
   I am using SuperCache, eAccelerator, MySQL query caching, serving images statically
   with Nginx, and only use three plugins. Nothing changed other than the upgrade,
   everything else is exactly the same.
 *  [kneeslider](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kneeslider/)
 * (@kneeslider)
 * [16 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/58-cpu-usage/#post-1200998)
 * Server load on my dedicated server jumped immediately after upgrading to 2.84.
   I added super cache which doesn’t seem to help.
 * Working with the server crew at my ISP they said the CPU load goes up and then
   the server was dipping into swap space with physical RAM decreasing.
 * Zero problems before the upgrades.
 * Perhaps someone with deeper knowledge of WP could look at this issue since there
   are more than a few of us now reporting what appears to be the same problem.

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 * Last activity: [16 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/58-cpu-usage/#post-1200998)
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