Title: memory vs. server load
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# memory vs. server load

 *  [c](https://wordpress.org/support/users/igneous/)
 * (@igneous)
 * [18 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/memory-vs-server-load/)
 * Im having issues with my wordpress site. Its become very popular, and with all
   of this traffic, Im either having too much server load, or too much server memory
   being used. I am using the WP super cache plugin, and when I use it the memory
   usage goes way up. If I get rid of it, the memory usage drops down a lot, and
   my server load goes up big time. Am I doing something wrong or is this basically
   what Im looking at with a lot of traffic?
    I dont have many plugins installed
   that I think would be causing problems, just akismet, all in one SEO, feedburner,
   google sitemaps, mighty adsense, search everything, shorturl, statcounter, ultimate
   google analytics, and WP super cache.

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 *  Thread Starter [c](https://wordpress.org/support/users/igneous/)
 * (@igneous)
 * [18 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/memory-vs-server-load/#post-656678)
 * heres a picture of my server load. You can clearly see when the cache plugins
   were used or not used.
    [http://www.thetvdeals.com/index.gif](http://www.thetvdeals.com/index.gif)
   the only weird thing is that last jump had nothing to do with me doing anything
 *  Thread Starter [c](https://wordpress.org/support/users/igneous/)
 * (@igneous)
 * [18 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/memory-vs-server-load/#post-656715)
 * here is the log after last night. The traffic had no effect on memory usage, 
   but I guess the site was actually stable. Not sure why it was so high though
   
   [http://www.thetvdeals.com/index2.gif](http://www.thetvdeals.com/index2.gif)

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 * Last activity: [18 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/memory-vs-server-load/#post-656715)
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