Title: Causes problems with CPU?
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Causes problems with CPU?

 *  Resolved [braebrae](https://wordpress.org/support/users/braebrae/)
 * (@braebrae)
 * [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/causes-problems-with-cpu/)
 * It appears that this plug-in causes high CPU that my website gets blocked for
   5 minutes. Do you know anything about that?
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/visual-recipe-index/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/visual-recipe-index/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Kremental](https://wordpress.org/support/users/seestheday/)
 * (@seestheday)
 * [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/causes-problems-with-cpu/#post-5254153)
 * I could see that happening only a site that has a very large number of posts.
   Are you trying to create a recipe index for a large volume of posts at once?
 *  [wearychef](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wearychef/)
 * (@wearychef)
 * [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/causes-problems-with-cpu/#post-5254320)
 * To join this conversation, I have my indexes divided into categories but included
   _every_ recipe on my main recipe index page. That is hundreds of recipes, and
   the page takes almost a minute to load. I will remove that full list, and I’m
   guessing this plugin works best with a lot of subcategories to keep the visual
   indexes small.
 * [http://wearychef.com/recipes](http://wearychef.com/recipes)
 *  Plugin Author [Kremental](https://wordpress.org/support/users/seestheday/)
 * (@seestheday)
 * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/causes-problems-with-cpu/#post-5254368)
 * The first time the page loads it will have to process all of the images to the
   appropriate side. This can be quite server intensive if you are on a shared hosting
   plan and there are hundreds of images to resize.
 * This should really only happen once though. Once the page has been loaded once
   and all of the images resized the page should render much more quickly – or at
   least as quickly as any page with a lot of images on it. Having hundreds of images
   on any page will cause load issues unless you take other measures like major 
   commercial sites do.

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 * Last reply from: [Kremental](https://wordpress.org/support/users/seestheday/)
 * Last activity: [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/causes-problems-with-cpu/#post-5254368)
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