Title: WP 2.0 and server load Last modified: August 18, 2016 --- # WP 2.0 and server load * [mercury](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mercury/) * (@mercury) * [20 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-20-and-server-load/) * I run a free WordPress site offering wordpress to anyone who signs up for a free account. This site sits on my server which runs with another forum I run which has 6000 members and 250,000+ posts. * Since I have upgraded to WP 2.0, the server started responding ridiculously slow. CPU load started sitting above 2.0 at all times and starting a week ago, load started escalating slowly until today it hit 55+ and the server just stopped responding. * Thinking my forums (and mysql) were killing the server, I tried optimizing MySQL as much as I could. I played with it for 6 hours until I got frustrated and moved my blogging site to a different server and the main servers load fell to .010 * Does anyone have problems with WP 2.0 and server load or do I need to make some special settings for WP on the server ? Viewing 4 replies - 1 through 4 (of 4 total) * [davidchait](https://wordpress.org/support/users/davidchait/) * (@davidchait) * [20 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-20-and-server-load/#post-322727) * I’m not great at this stuff, just thought I’d help brainstorming. Do you know what process is using up all the cycles? if it’s in the php process, can you get a list of the php files that are using excessive time? if it’s in mySQL, I’d be shocked… * Did you add any new plugins? Did you try disabling old plugins? Have you checked various error logs for failures say creating cache files or tmp files? * -d * [chaaban](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chaaban/) * (@chaaban) * [20 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-20-and-server-load/#post-322728) * i dident upgrade yet 🙂 waiting other 2 test it :p * Thread Starter [mercury](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mercury/) * (@mercury) * [20 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-20-and-server-load/#post-322733) * it was ALL MySQL processes, at first I was baffled, Top results didn’t show me anything other than a HUGE list of MySQLD processes, here is a copy of Top that I posted on another forum thinking that my message board was behind it… * ———- * root@EDM1 [~]# top top – 13:38:22 up 10 days, 18:44, 2 users, load average: 65.16, 67.69, 44.99 Tasks: 261 total, 66 running, 194 sleeping, 0 stopped, 1 zombie Cpu(s): 64.1% us, 35.4% sy, 0.0% ni, 0.0% id, 0.0% wa, 0.2% hi, 0.4% si Mem: 1033784k total, 1029088k used, 4696k free, 85028k buffers Swap: 2096472k total, 1128k used, 2095344k free, 328000k cached PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 15754 mysql 16 0 60884 36m 3760 R 14.9 3.6 0:03.49 mysqld 15963 mysql 16 0 60628 36m 3760 S 9.4 3.6 0:00.89 mysqld 15926 mysql 15 0 60884 36m 3760 S 8.8 3.6 0:04.54 mysqld 15694 mysql 16 0 60884 36m 3760 R 8.5 3.6 0:04.69 mysqld 15943 mysql 16 0 60628 36m 3760 S 8.5 3.6 0:01.31 mysqld 15946 mysql 16 0 60628 36m 3760 S 8.5 3.6 0:00.81 mysqld 15962 mysql 16 0 60628 36m 3760 S 7.6 3.6 0:00.82 mysqld 15757 mysql 16 0 60884 36m 3760 R 7.3 3.6 0:01.68 mysqld 15756 mysql 16 0 60884 36m 3760 R 7.0 3.6 0:01.70 mysqld 15937 mysql 16 0 60884 36m 3760 R 7.0 3.6 0:01.43 mysqld * Cut for Brevity ——————— * So I started digging into MySQL processed and noticed that the running MyDQL processes were ALL from my WordPress accounts. At first, it looked like they were all from the WP-Referral plugin, which I removed from the sites. * Still the load continued to spike like crazy. * Since my forum is my main focus and seeing how wordpress was causing it to come a stand still, so I moved my account via WHM to another server and it’s dropped the CPU load drastically. * Here’s a snippet of top below * #3 Today, 6:05pm encryption Member Join Date: May 2005 Age: 29 Posts: 99 * UPDATE ——– * It wasn’t vBulletin after all, turns out my Blogging site was sucking up all the resources, I’ve moved it to a different server I own and both servers are performing flawlessly (dunno why). 6 hours at it and it’s fixed. * Here is a snippet of Top now * top – 18:07:46 up 4:23, 1 user, load average: 0.18, 0.15, 0.16 Tasks: 130 total, 1 running, 129 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu(s): 33.3% us, 33.3% sy, 0.0% ni, 33.3% id, 0.0% wa, 0.0% hi, 0.0% si Mem: 1033784k total, 953332k used, 80452k free, 31544k buffers Swap: 2096472k total, 144k used, 2096328k free, 640412k cached PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 13111 root 16 0 2524 984 1684 R 99.9 0.1 0:00.13 top 1 root 16 0 2036 576 1424 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.63 init 2 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.01 migration/0 3 root 34 19 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 ksoftirqd/0 4 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.01 migration/1 5 root 34 19 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 ksoftirqd/1 6 root 5 -10 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 events/0 7 root 5 -10 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 events/1 * —————- * Has anyone experienced anything like this ? * Thread Starter [mercury](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mercury/) * (@mercury) * [20 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-20-and-server-load/#post-322804) * Things are getting worse for my new server now, CPU load is climbing to and sitting above 5.0. * I cant believe no one else is having load issues with WordPress 2.0 Viewing 4 replies - 1 through 4 (of 4 total) The topic ‘WP 2.0 and server load’ is closed to new replies. * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) * 4 replies * 3 participants * Last reply from: [mercury](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mercury/) * Last activity: [20 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-20-and-server-load/#post-322804) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics