Title: Memory consumption
Last modified: January 27, 2017

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# Memory consumption

 *  [rudegoose](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rudegoose/)
 * (@rudegoose)
 * [9 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/memory-consumption-2/)
 * Hello, I have been using Backwpup on many sites for a long time and have found
   it fantastic, but I have one site where, when backing up the whole site (about
   500MB), the physical memory use according to CPanel is over 2GB at its peak, 
   and then remains at over 900MB for about 5-10 minutes even after the backup is
   complete. Is this normal and is there anything I can do to reduce the strain?
   Thank you.

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