Title: High CPU Usage
Last modified: December 14, 2021

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# High CPU Usage

 *  [attiqfsd](https://wordpress.org/support/users/attiqfsd/)
 * (@attiqfsd)
 * [4 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/high-cpu-usage-43/)
 * I have a 4 Core VPS with only 2 sites. 1 of the sites is using 3000% CPU, and
   there isn’t much traffic coming to the site.
 * When I checked the high CPU usage using the htop command, it shows lsphp and 
   MySQL are using a lot of cpu.
 * What is `index.phto_avoid_overwrite_important_env` ??
 *     ```
           PID USER      PR  NI    VIRT    RES    SHR S  %CPU  %MEM     TIME+ COMMAND
        393350 mysql     20   0 3693084   1.4g   6540 S 227.8  18.6   5422:03 /usr/local/mysql/bin/mysqld --basedir=/usr/local/mysql --datadir=/usr/local/mysql/data --plugin-dir=/usr/local/mysql/lib/plugin --log-error=server.mydomain.tld.err --pid-file=/usr/local/mysql/data/mysqld.pid --socket=/usr/local/mysql/data/mysql.sock
       4154604 admin     20   0  359308 145868  78260 S  50.0   1.8   0:14.42 lsphp:ains/mydomain.tld/private_html/index.phto_avoid_overwrite_important_env
       4154608 admin     20   0  359708 144828  78260 R  50.0   1.8   0:09.97 lsphp:ains/mydomain.tld/private_html/index.phto_avoid_overwrite_important_env
       4154610 admin     20   0  359528 145836  78260 R  50.0   1.8   0:11.18 lsphp:ains/mydomain.tld/private_html/index.phto_avoid_overwrite_important_env
       4155190 root      20   0   43256  30404   2920 D  33.3   0.4   0:03.34 lfd - checking directories
       4155254 admin     20   0  234728  36820  22008 R  27.8   0.5   0:00.06 lsphp:ains/mydomain.tld/private_html/index.phto_avoid_overwrite_important_env
       ```
   

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 *  Moderator [t-p](https://wordpress.org/support/users/t-p/)
 * (@t-p)
 * [4 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/high-cpu-usage-43/#post-15163229)
 * We have some general recommendations for you at [https://wordpress.org/support/article/optimization/](https://wordpress.org/support/article/optimization/)
 *  Thread Starter [attiqfsd](https://wordpress.org/support/users/attiqfsd/)
 * (@attiqfsd)
 * [4 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/high-cpu-usage-43/#post-15163367)
 * [@t-p](https://wordpress.org/support/users/t-p/) thanks for the recommendation.
   I think the server is more than capable of handling much more traffic than what
   it is currently receiving.
 * It has 6core CPU (wrote 4core in the original post by mistake) and 8GB RAM. I
   am using OpenLiteSpeed WebServer via DirectAdmin Panel and the sites don’t even
   have woocommerce. Both sites are simple WordPress sites, 1 of which is a membership
   site.
 * I have setup LSCache plugin and it works great but the CPU load increases substantially
   for some time and then it goes down.
 * Last time when I checked the htop, it had over 30 processes as `lsphp:ains/mydomain.
   tld/private_html/index.phto_avoid_overwrite_important_env`
 * I was hoping I could get some help identifying what this “to_avoid_overwrite_important_env”
   means.
    This file does not exist in the location shown in the list.
 *  [peps23](https://wordpress.org/support/users/peps23/)
 * (@peps23)
 * [4 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/high-cpu-usage-43/#post-15163733)
 * We also have the issue and opened a thread at LiteSpeed:
 * [https://www.litespeedtech.com/support/forum/threads/what-is-this-to_avoid_overwrite_important_env.20333/](https://www.litespeedtech.com/support/forum/threads/what-is-this-to_avoid_overwrite_important_env.20333/)
 *  Thread Starter [attiqfsd](https://wordpress.org/support/users/attiqfsd/)
 * (@attiqfsd)
 * [4 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/high-cpu-usage-43/#post-15163737)
 * [@peps23](https://wordpress.org/support/users/peps23/) yeah I replied to your
   thread over there as well. I thought it’s a WordPress problem but seems like 
   it’s a litespeed issue.
 *  [peps23](https://wordpress.org/support/users/peps23/)
 * (@peps23)
 * [4 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/high-cpu-usage-43/#post-15163741)
 * Ah, indeed. Yeah seems litespeed related. Hoping for an update!
 *  Thread Starter [attiqfsd](https://wordpress.org/support/users/attiqfsd/)
 * (@attiqfsd)
 * [4 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/high-cpu-usage-43/#post-15163743)
 * I hope too 🤞🏽 Only started facing this issue today.

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