Title: Ajax.php high load
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Ajax.php high load

 *  [halluzineyt](https://wordpress.org/support/users/halluzineyt/)
 * (@halluzineyt)
 * [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ajaxphp-high-load/)
 *     ```
       <strong>Pid	Owner	Priority	CPU %	Memory %	</strong>
       beta	0	  35.0	  1.1	/usr/bin/php ******public_html/*****/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php
       ```
   
 *  Load Averages: 13.56 8.52 5.02
 * My ajax.php is making a lot of cpu usage can anybody tell me how to avoid this
 * This is my site [http://www.flippish.com](http://www.flippish.com)
 * Plugins are
 * Akismet
    Contact Form 7 EWWW Image Optimizer Nextend Facebook Connect
 * Simple Lightbox
    Simple Local Avatars Theme My Login WP-PostViews WP Super Cache
 * This shows this
    `<?php echo $wpdb->num_queries; ?> <?php _e('queries'); ?>. 
   <?php timer_stop(1); ?> <?php _e('seconds'); ?>`
 * 66 queries. 0.597 seconds

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 *  [Mark Ratledge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/songdogtech/)
 * (@songdogtech)
 * [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ajaxphp-high-load/#post-3792635)
 * ajax.php is constantly talking to the server; that’s the nature of ajax. See 
   [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ajax_(programming)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ajax_(programming)).
   And that’s why there are lots of httpd processes that use CPU.

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 * [load](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/load/)
 * [queries](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/queries/)

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 * Last reply from: [Mark Ratledge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/songdogtech/)
 * Last activity: [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ajaxphp-high-load/#post-3792635)
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