Title: Server load + memory usage after each update
Last modified: March 22, 2017

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# Server load + memory usage after each update

 *  Resolved [CRE8](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cre8gr/)
 * (@cre8gr)
 * [9 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/server-load-memory-usage-after-each-update/)
 * Hello,
 * We’re using Yoast SEO in our website that has a HUGE database. It has about 13,000
   posts and about 3 to 5 times the number of published posts for post revisions.
   That’s about 65,000 to 70,000 posts.
 * Everytime we update Yoast SEO the server goes down for about 5 to 10 minutes,
   with the load going up from 0.8-1.5 to 40-80, and memory usage filling up full,
   so the machine is swapping like crazy at that time.
 * Of course the site goes down during that period and some times we have to shutdown
   apache for a few minutes so the server will settle down and start it again. As
   I said, after a few minutes everything seems to work as usual, but I can’t understand
   what’s causing the server load after the update.
 * Anyone else has this bizarre behavior?

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 * Last reply from: [CRE8](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cre8gr/)
 * Last activity: [9 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/server-load-memory-usage-after-each-update/)
 * Status: resolved