Title: CPU exceeded – MySQL error
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# CPU exceeded – MySQL error

 *  [tyler1234](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tyler1234/)
 * (@tyler1234)
 * [17 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cpu-exceeded-mysql-error/)
 * My wordpress blog (found at drvino.com) has had six CPU exceeded outages from
   my host (Bluehost) in the past 24 hrs. They are all related to slow MySQL queries.
   To determine which processes are the root of the problem, I have to go into the
   mysql_slow_queries folder, which is so large that it crashed my browser. I went
   back again and there seem to be problems related to comments. I get a lot of 
   spam: is there a known problem with Akisment? Should I install a kaptcha?
 * The redirection plugin also appeared to be causing problems. I disabled it.
 * I am running wp-supercache.
 * I followed the comments on this thread and the one linked at the bottom. I took
   many of the indicated steps and things were running fine for a brief while but
   then got another CPU timeout.
 * I suspect it might be the search function that is the cause of much of this. 
   Many URLs with a ?s=searchterm appear to have been indexed in google.
 * My host told me to “optimize” my database and pointed me to this document but
   I don’t know how to do any of it.
    [http://helpdesk.bluehost.com/kb/index.php?x=&mod_id=2&id=499](http://helpdesk.bluehost.com/kb/index.php?x=&mod_id=2&id=499)
 * If anyone out there has any thoughts please let me know! Thanks in advance.

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 *  Thread Starter [tyler1234](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tyler1234/)
 * (@tyler1234)
 * [17 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cpu-exceeded-mysql-error/#post-876521)
 * here was the link to the other thread:
    [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/189828?replies=13](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/189828?replies=13)
 *  [psybertron](https://wordpress.org/support/users/psybertron/)
 * (@psybertron)
 * [17 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cpu-exceeded-mysql-error/#post-876525)
 * Also looking for performance help. I posted on this thread.
    [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/196295?replies=15](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/196295?replies=15)
 * My host (dreamhost) suggested slow MySQL queries behind the slow rendering of
   the php pages – but I don’t know how to index / optimise. So far I’ve removed
   all recent plug-ins … but still unacceptably slow.

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 * Last activity: [17 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cpu-exceeded-mysql-error/#post-876525)
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