Title: Cleantalk causing 100% CPU usage
Last modified: June 10, 2025

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# Cleantalk causing 100% CPU usage

 *  Resolved [ewd910](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ewd910/)
 * (@ewd910)
 * [1 year, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cleantalk-causing-100-cpu-usage/)
 * Latest version of Cleantalk installed June 2nd, since then we have had our database
   CPU usage hit 100%, seems to spike every 4 hours or so. There are some runaway
   queries that are taking up all our available CPU. Once Cleantalk was deactivated
   CPU usage and DB connections went back down to normal. Hopefully this can be 
   fixed soon

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 *  Thread Starter [ewd910](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ewd910/)
 * (@ewd910)
 * [1 year, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cleantalk-causing-100-cpu-usage/#post-18506441)
 * For some additional info, I think the last version that didn’t cause our CPU 
   to spike regularly was 6.55, that is what we are rolling back to
 *  Plugin Support [eugenecleantalk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/eugenecleantalk/)
 * (@eugenecleantalk)
 * [1 year, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cleantalk-causing-100-cpu-usage/#post-18506622)
 * Hello [@ewd910](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ewd910/).
 * Could you install version 6.57.2 by first uninstalling the version 6.55 plugin?
 * If that doesn’t help, please contact us via our private Ticket System and add
   there a link to this topic: [https://cleantalk.org/my/support/open](https://cleantalk.org/my/support/open).
   We need additional details about your website.
 *  Thread Starter [ewd910](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ewd910/)
 * (@ewd910)
 * [1 year, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cleantalk-causing-100-cpu-usage/#post-18507680)
 * [@eugenecleantalk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/eugenecleantalk/) should
   I select “Complete deactivation” when uninstalling 6.55?
 *  Plugin Support [eugenecleantalk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/eugenecleantalk/)
 * (@eugenecleantalk)
 * [1 year, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cleantalk-causing-100-cpu-usage/#post-18507799)
 * No, there is no need. Many releases ago we already made it so that deleting a
   plugin results in a complete cleanup of its data, as in the Complete deactivation.
 *  Plugin Support [sergecleantalk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sergecleantalk/)
 * (@sergecleantalk)
 * [1 year, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cleantalk-causing-100-cpu-usage/#post-18520611)
 * [@ewd910](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ewd910/) Does the issue still persist?
 *  Plugin Support [sergecleantalk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sergecleantalk/)
 * (@sergecleantalk)
 * [1 year, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cleantalk-causing-100-cpu-usage/#post-18525497)
 * Hello.
   We haven’t heard back from you in a few days, so I’m going to mark this
   topic as “resolved”.If you have any further questions, you can start a new topic
   or contact us via our private Ticket System: [https://cleantalk.org/my/support/open](https://cleantalk.org/my/support/open).

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