Title: average memory usage for “empty” wp install
Last modified: March 4, 2018

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# average memory usage for “empty” wp install

 *  [merryterry](https://wordpress.org/support/users/marryterry/)
 * (@marryterry)
 * [8 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/average-memory-usage-for-empty-wp-install/)
 * Hi, while developing a business listing website (WordPress multisite with 2 sites)
   I noticed that the empty website (no users) uses about 90Mb of RAM (no traffic
   yet, the website is in maintenance mode). When I upload the first 2000 users 
   in the database (using the import tool built in with my theme, Listingo) the 
   RAM usage rockets up to 270 Mb. I do not upload any image in the library at this
   step.
    The database size is about 70Mb. I was wondering whether this was normal
   or not. What is the memory usage that i should expect with 10-20K users (most
   of them inactive, I expect 1-2 hundreds of unique visitors/month). Thank you 
   very much, I only developed small websites so far, no wordpress e no users; Thus,
   I need your guidance. Thank you very much for your help.
    -  This topic was modified 8 years, 2 months ago by [merryterry](https://wordpress.org/support/users/marryterry/).

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 *  Thread Starter [merryterry](https://wordpress.org/support/users/marryterry/)
 * (@marryterry)
 * [8 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/average-memory-usage-for-empty-wp-install/#post-10042045)
 * I answer to myself in case anyone else was having the same issue. No, it is not
   normal to have such a RAM usage merely for adding users in the database. The 
   issue was with a (poorly developed) prepackaged plugin of the theme Listingo,
   which was constitutively querying the user database in each page, thus slowing
   down everything. Adding the users to the database does not increase RAM consumption
   now, only -obv- when the db is queried.

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