Title: Jetpack High CPU Usage
Last modified: July 16, 2020

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# Jetpack High CPU Usage

 *  Resolved [benjamincano](https://wordpress.org/support/users/benjamincano/)
 * (@benjamincano)
 * [5 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/jetpack-high-cpu-usage/)
 * Hello, as many before I have found that my site is using a lot of CPU usage on
   my site. A lot of posts are old and I couldn’t find any answer, I contacted WordPress
   but haven’t gotten an answer so I decided to post it here maybe I am not the 
   only one dealing with this issue.
 * Recently my site was attacked and I blocked and disabled the XMLRPC.php, wp-cron.
   php and enhaced security to the wp-admin.php. I didn’t know but its the standard,
   I also blocked to top 10 IPs accessing the site and this files using Cloudflare
   and was able to lower my CPU usage considerably since it is stopped before reaching
   the site.
 * While it is lower its not low enough, I came to the conclusion that Jetpack is
   causing the usage, I only have the JSON API module active because my mobile app
   uses this to load content, I don’t run a high traffic website and I have read
   all the logs and there is nothing out of place because usage is also high in 
   odd hours off the day like 2am and it doesn’t match my website stats. This is
   just a new issue since I have had the app for at least a couple of years with
   the same amount of traffic using Jetpack and it is just now that this problem
   came up.
 * I ran an strace and the results came like this
 *     ```
             2 classic-editor-es_ES
             2 popup-maker-es_ES
             4 99robots-header-footer-code-manager-es_ES
             9 advanced-excerpt-es_ES
             9 disable-comments-es_ES
            12 index
            16 jetpack-es_ES
            16 sem-author-image-es_ES
            32 popup-maker
            70 classic-editor
            70 disable-xml-rpc
            70 missed-schedule-post-publisher
            70 tynt-insight-for-wordpress
            82 disable-comments
            91 cloudflare-flexible-ssl
            94 sem-author-image
           108 advanced-excerpt
           151 header-footer-code-manager
          5943 jetpack
       ```
   
 * I don’t know if something was changed in the latest versions of the app that 
   is causing this, I run my website on Media Temple and for years never had an 
   issue.
 * I’d appreciate if someone ran into an issue like this and was able to solve it?
   if I deactivate Jetpack is obvious how the usage goes down. I tried to use the
   WP REST API but that generates more usage on my CPU. I tried to think and search
   for all possible solutions but still have no idea what to do.
 * Thanks in advance.
 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Fjetpack-high-cpu-usage%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

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 *  Plugin Contributor [James Huff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/)
 * (@macmanx)
 * [5 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/jetpack-high-cpu-usage/#post-13133538)
 * I see that you have an open email support ticket with us. We have more tools 
   to help over there, so we’ll reply to your email as soon as we can.

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 * Last activity: [5 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/jetpack-high-cpu-usage/#post-13133538)
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