Title: Overwhelming server load
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Overwhelming server load

 *  Resolved [Rob Roy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/danetidwell/)
 * (@danetidwell)
 * [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/overwhelming-server-load/)
 * This plugin (as do most weather plugins) for some reason at random times completely
   crashes my server. I have an Amazon EC2 EBS backed medium instance, so it isn’t
   one of those $5.99 a month shared hosting packages.
 * Once or twice a week, the time seems to be random, this plugin causes CPU usage
   to skyrocket to 100% for several minutes, causing the server to stop responding
   and requiring a restart. It _is_ this plugin, as it only happens when it is enabled.
 * Is there any way to prevent this? I’ve already set the refresh to once every 
   two hours, so it isn’t running the update very often. What is causing it? I know
   it has something to do with weather sites because every plugin I’ve ever used
   to display the weather causes a similar problem.
 * Which of the transfer methods result in the least server load? Is there a specific
   weather service that uses less server overhead?
 * Normally the instance runs 20-30% of CPU – so an increase of 70-80% for the weather
   plugin is way too high.
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-forecast/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-forecast/)

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 *  Plugin Author [tuxlog](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tuxlog/)
 * (@tuxlog)
 * [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/overwhelming-server-load/#post-3332860)
 * How many locations did you set up?
    Can you give the URL of your site please?
   The output of phpinfo() would also be a good starting point.
 *  Thread Starter [Rob Roy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/danetidwell/)
 * (@danetidwell)
 * [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/overwhelming-server-load/#post-3332867)
 * There’s only one location set up. [http://chicagophoenix.com](http://chicagophoenix.com)
   is the site url. [http://chicagophoenix.com/info.php](http://chicagophoenix.com/info.php)
   is phpinfo().
 *  Plugin Author [tuxlog](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tuxlog/)
 * (@tuxlog)
 * [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/overwhelming-server-load/#post-3332900)
 * Surprise, I expected you to at least 50 locations setup. We experienced this 
   before when people use a lot of locations.
 * Okay, so we first try the easy thing.
 * Timeout for connections should be lowered, e.g. 5 secs.
    Refresh 7200 should 
   be okay. Try curl method first.
 * It would be a good idea to have a look at the log of your server at the time 
   the server gets overloaded to see if there a re some sideeffects. Do you have
   a chance to do so?
 *  Thread Starter [Rob Roy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/danetidwell/)
 * (@danetidwell)
 * [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/overwhelming-server-load/#post-3332927)
 * Ok I’ve made those changes – this seems to only happen once or twice a week so
   it may be a bit before I get back with you.
 *  Plugin Author [tuxlog](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tuxlog/)
 * (@tuxlog)
 * [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/overwhelming-server-load/#post-3333042)
 * Any news?
 *  Plugin Author [tuxlog](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tuxlog/)
 * (@tuxlog)
 * [13 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/overwhelming-server-load/#post-3333064)
 * seems to be resolved

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 * Last reply from: [tuxlog](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tuxlog/)
 * Last activity: [13 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/overwhelming-server-load/#post-3333064)
 * Status: resolved