Title: causing high resource consumption?
Last modified: April 13, 2017

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# causing high resource consumption?

 *  Resolved [burnstuff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/burnstuff/)
 * (@burnstuff)
 * [9 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/causing-high-resource-consumption/)
 * Hello and first, thank you for your very good support with my last issue with
   gravity view compatibility.
 * Currently, when I’m working on wordpress, like editing pages and such, my host
   says resource consumption is very high and as a result, my site it “limited” 
   meaning that it’s getting very little server resources and then becomes impossible
   to work with as pages take 1- 2 minutes to load. I’m using greengeeks shared 
   hosting, so perhaps this is just a result of cheap hosting, but today they told
   me this:
 * > From: GreenGeeks Support
   >  Sent: April 13, 2017 10:51 AM To: john@.com Subject:[#
   > PMY-680-17735]: Website issue
   > Hello,
   > It seems that the issue is related with your ip-geo-block plugin.
   > I have renamed the /home/goauctio/public_html/wp-content/plugins/ip-geo-block
   > folder to ip-geo-block_
   > After this the resource usage of your account has been decreased.
 * Do you feel this is accurate? They’ve disabled IP geo block so I’m now not benefitting
   from it. Perhaps I’ll need to disable/re-enable when I’m editing the site?
    I
   thought I’d ask if you feel this is something your plugin might be responsible
   for.
 * Thank you,
    John

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 *  Plugin Author [tokkonopapa](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tokkonopapa/)
 * (@tokkonopapa)
 * [9 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/causing-high-resource-consumption/#post-9032405)
 * Hi again John,
 * Sorry for my late replay.
 * I’ll show you some resource usage information under the following conditions:
    - Server: Apache
    - PHP: 5.6.10
    - WordPress: 4.7.3
    - Multisite: yes
    - Twenty Twelve 2.2
    - IP Geo Block 3.0.2.1
    - P3 (Plugin Performance Profiler) 1.5.3.9
    - Query Monitor 2.13.4
    - Server IP & Memory Usage Display 1.4.0
    - Wordfence Security 6.3.6
    - WP-Optimize 2.1.1
    - WP Crontrol 1.5
    - WP Multibyte Patch 2.8.1
 * **Memory usage:**
    - Before activating IGB: Memory: 36.9 of 1024 MB (4%)
    - After activating IGB: Memory: 38.21 of 1024 MB (4%)
 * **CPU usage:**
    - P3 (Plugin Performance Profiler): ⌊CPU usage by P3⌉
 * **Number of SQL queries:**
    - Only when blocked: ⌊Only when blocked by Query Monitor⌉
    - All of validation: ⌊All of validation by Query Monitor⌉
 * I believe that the results show IGB does not spend resources so much. But please
   consider to the followings:
 * 1. Disabling DNS reverse lookup
    DNS lookup spends server resources relatively
   high. So if you enable “Block by country” on “Front-end target settings” section,
   please replace `HOST` to `*`. It disables to lookup DNS record.
 * 2. Disabling “Record validation statistics” on “Record settings” section.
    Writing
   MySQL tables takes much resources than Reading.
 * 3. Disabling “Record validation logs” or “Only when blocked” on “Record settings”
   section.
    Reducing the frequency of writing MySQL tables would be effective.
 * I think that No.1 is a suspect of this issue. So I should provide an option to
   disable/enable DNS lookup in the future release.
 * Thank you for your posting this issue!
 *  Thread Starter [burnstuff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/burnstuff/)
 * (@burnstuff)
 * [9 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/causing-high-resource-consumption/#post-9034190)
 * Thanks! I’ve made all three suggested changes to see if that stops the resource
   limiting that GreenGeeks imposes when I’m trying to edit my site.
 * Your support is much appreciated.
 *  Plugin Author [tokkonopapa](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tokkonopapa/)
 * (@tokkonopapa)
 * [9 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/causing-high-resource-consumption/#post-9034427)
 * Hi [@burnstuff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/burnstuff/),
 * I’m sorry but I have to correct my answer at 1. in the previous thread.
 * Please copy and paste the followings into your “**UA string and qualification**”
   in “Front-end target settings” section.
 *     ```
       Google:*,bot:*,slurp:*
       spider:*,archive:*,*:FEED
       embed.ly:*,Twitterbot:US,Facebot:US
       ```
   
 * I’d appreciate you if you let me know my suggestion can really help you to solve
   this issue.
 * Thanks!
 *  Thread Starter [burnstuff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/burnstuff/)
 * (@burnstuff)
 * [9 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/causing-high-resource-consumption/#post-9063003)
 * Hi [@tokkonopapa](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tokkonopapa/),
    Just reporting
   in that after applying the changes you recommended here in this thread, the site
   is responding faster during editing and I have not seen the limiting from GreenGeeks
   happening. So I think it’s a good solution. Thank you!
 *  Plugin Author [tokkonopapa](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tokkonopapa/)
 * (@tokkonopapa)
 * [9 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/causing-high-resource-consumption/#post-9068054)
 * Hi John,
 * I think “1. Disabling DNS reverse lookup” is the most effective to reduce server’s
   load. So please try to enable 2. and 3.
 * And in the future, I’ll equip this plugin with a functionality that enables and
   disables DNS reverse lookup.
 * Thank you for your feedback!

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