Title: Excessive memory usage
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Excessive memory usage

 *  [alexlillo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alexlillo/)
 * (@alexlillo)
 * [14 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/excessive-memory-usage/)
 * Hi,
 * One of my WP installations is using 27.15Mb, with no plugins active (just WP 
   Security Scan), default Twenty Ten 1.2 theme with no modifications or widgets
   used.
 * As it’s a localised version (es_ES) I deleted the lang files and turned it into
   a English wordpress. Memory usage goes down to 22.98Mb, but I think this is still
   too much.
 * Two of my WP installations, both localised in Spanish, both using the same plugins
   and custom themes, use just 18-19Mb. With the problematic one I had to change
   the PHP memory limit to 64M, but I don’t see what is this happening.
 * I thought the hosting could be the problem, but I’m trying it in local and everything
   runs the same way.
 * I’ve checked the MySQL and there is no overhead, so the tables should be optimised.
 * The blog is quite new, BUT I imported around 230 posts using a CSV Importer. 
   Could this be a problem? Is WP using more memory because it has to load more 
   posts, almost all of them full of crappy Word code?
 * I don’t know how the number of posts and its content (mostly images here) affects
   memory usage.
 * Other than that… no idea of what can be the problem. I’ve checked this forum 
   several times, and google’d it, without luck.
 * Any help would be much appreciated.
 * Thanks,
 * Alex

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