Title: CPU usage
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# CPU usage

 *  [jjorden](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jjorden/)
 * (@jjorden)
 * [17 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cpu-usage/)
 * I have read numerous threads having to do with excessive CPU usage on shared 
   servers but I don’t see any consensus about how the issue can be best addressed.
 * Starting a week ago, my provider, InMotion Hosting has been suspending my account,
   parterre.com, on a daily or more-than-daily basis. Briefly, the host says a) “
   your CPU spikes started about half way though last month” [i.e., April 2009] 
   and b) “we are still seeing excessive use of CPU and RAM, which may be related
   to a high number of MySQL queries being issued by your wordpress installation.”
 * At the time the spikes started, I was running 2.6 and had been doing so for about
   a year (?). I had not made changes in frequency of postings or the plugins any
   time in the past six months or so.
 * Since the first suspensions, I have installed 2.7 and activated WP Super Cache.
   Meanwhile, usage spikes continue, most recently sometime between midnight and
   7 am today, a time when there is practically no traffic to my site.
 * Any ideas? I apologize in advance for not being able to supply more information,
   but with the site suspended I have no access to stats or even my control panel.

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 *  [jaysonnhs2](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jaysonnhs2/)
 * (@jaysonnhs2)
 * [16 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cpu-usage/#post-1087567)
 * I’m having the same problem with the same host
 * Can anyone help?
 * they said these two files use about 45% of our CPU
 * /index.php
    /xmlrpc.php
 * The blog is updated
 *  [shane-g](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shane-g/)
 * (@shane-g)
 * [16 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cpu-usage/#post-1087568)
 * Hi,
 * Refer this article:
 * [http://www.michaelaulia.com/blogs/reduce-wordpress-cpu-usage-general-tips.html](http://www.michaelaulia.com/blogs/reduce-wordpress-cpu-usage-general-tips.html)
 * Thanks,
 * Shane G.

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## Tags

 * [cpu](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/cpu/)
 * [MySQL](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/mysql/)

 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 2 replies
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 * Last reply from: [shane-g](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shane-g/)
 * Last activity: [16 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cpu-usage/#post-1087568)
 * Status: not resolved

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