Title: admin-ajax.php taking up too much processing power
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# admin-ajax.php taking up too much processing power

 *  [AaronC](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aaronc/)
 * (@aaronc)
 * [14 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-ajaxphp-taking-up-too-much-processing-power/)
 * Hi.
 * I have an account on a shared server with my webhost. They are constantly complaining
   about the processing power that admin-ajax.php takes up on our account.
 * I’ve looked up ways to reduce this, and found that others have had the same issue.
   However most of the stuff I found dealing with this do not have instructions 
   corresponding to a version of this file that looks like mine. I’m a little reluctant
   to fiddle with it since I don’t really understand most of what I see.
 * Could someone pls take a look for me and offer some advice:
    [http://pastebin.com/q8vsr7NR](http://pastebin.com/q8vsr7NR)
 * Thanks

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 *  [Trimek](https://wordpress.org/support/users/trimek/)
 * (@trimek)
 * [13 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-ajaxphp-taking-up-too-much-processing-power/#post-2857229)
 * I have the same problem.
 * My website is cached, has like 5 plugins (Pagination, Total Cache, Events manager,
   WP Facebook Open Graph etc. nothing fancy) and even when i turned off the only
   AJAX thing i had (checking time with server) high CPU usage is still there. Comments
   on my website are turned off, there is no user registration etc.
 * I don`t know how to deal with it to be honest and I can`t really do anything 
   on website as 50 people use 35% of my shared hosting CPU limit.

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