Title: high CPU usage
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# high CPU usage

 *  [JackieFRCUK](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jackiefrcuk/)
 * (@jackiefrcuk)
 * [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/high-cpu-usage-10/)
 * We have been shutdown by our hosting site twice in the last few days for high
   CPU usage. We are a small site with low traffic and have been running the site
   for 18 months with no problems. Our hosting site have sent the following error
   message through to assist in fixing the problem but this means nothing to me:
 * specialneedsfamilyresources.co.uk [Fri Jan 10 10:58:53 2014] [error] [client 
   65.55.52.97:16077] AH01215: WordPressdatabase error MySQL server has gone away
   for query SELECT * FROM wp_posts WHERE (post_type = ‘page’ AND post_status = ‘
   publish’) ORDER BY menu_order,wp_posts.post_title ASC made by require(‘wp-blog-
   header.php’), require_once(‘wp-includes/template-loader.php’), include(‘/themes/
   frc web files from Kerry apr 2012/404.php’), get_footer, locate_template, load_template,
   require_once(‘/themes/frc web files from Kerry apr 2012/footer.php’), wp_nav_menu,
   call_user_func, wp_page_menu, wp_list_pages, get_pages
 * Any help here would be immensely appreciated.

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 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/high-cpu-usage-10/#post-4489330)
 * Have you tried:
 * – deactivating **all** plugins to see if this resolves the problem. If this works,
   re-activate the plugins one by one until you find the problematic plugin(s).
 * – switching to the default theme to rule out any theme-specific problems.
 * – [resetting the plugins folder](http://codex.wordpress.org/FAQ_Troubleshooting#How_to_deactivate_all_plugins_when_not_able_to_access_the_administrative_menus.3F)
   by FTP or PhpMyAdmin. Sometimes, an apparently inactive plugin can still cause
   problems.

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 * Last activity: [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/high-cpu-usage-10/#post-4489330)
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