Title: WordPress 3.4 Memory Usage
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# WordPress 3.4 Memory Usage

 *  [MickeyRoush](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mickeyroush/)
 * (@mickeyroush)
 * [13 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-34-memory-usage/)
 * I’ve almost completed upgrading all of my sites to 3.4. I use a plugin to monitor
   memory usage. In all of the 10 sites upgraded I’ve noticed that my All-Time memory
   usage has gone up after upgrading. I haven’t benchmarked the amount, but it looks
   in the neighborhood of 1mb.
 * I was under the assumption that this newest update would decrease the amount 
   of memory usage. Am I incorrect in this assumption?
 * Any insight would be greatly appreciated.

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 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [13 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-34-memory-usage/page/2/#post-2826058)
 * Don’t misunderstand me. I didn’t mean that the core devs aren’t acutely conscious
   of memory consumption issues. as I said, we’ve had release where memory consumption
   has dropped as code has been reworked and tightened up. But ongoing development
   is always a balancing act between adding new features (as requested by users),
   ensuring a decent level of backwards compatibility and keep WP as lean & mean
   as possible.
 * > most of the sites I develop (and many others) are not simple/plain sites using
   > default themes/plugins/functionality.
 * And there’s the rub. You need/want extra functionality. That’s always going to
   come at a price.

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 * Last activity: [13 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-34-memory-usage/page/2/#post-2826058)
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