Title: High server CPU and memory usage
Last modified: June 16, 2020

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# High server CPU and memory usage

 *  [wordpee](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wordpee/)
 * (@wordpee)
 * [5 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/high-server-cpu-and-memory-usage/)
 * Beware! When WordPress.org warns you a plugin has not been tested with latest
   major release (5.4 in my case), or that it has not been maintained in over a 
   year (five years at the time of writing), do not install it.
 * Simply deactivating this plugin gave me a huge improvement on website performance.
   The CPU usage graph on my server dropped dramatically over the next few days.
 * Before deactivating there was about 2.5 seconds to wait before each page would
   start to render. After deactivating the whole website was a dream to navigate.
 * It’s astonishing that a seemingly simple plugin could cripple a website in such
   a way.
 * Also, unless I’m mistake, the plugin appears to load an entire icon library for
   a single icon.

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