Title: PHP and Apache process in infinite loop
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# PHP and Apache process in infinite loop

 *  [ls41](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ls41/)
 * (@ls41)
 * [16 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-and-apache-process-in-infinite-loop/)
 * I was trying to install Wishlist Member plugin and right after activating the
   plugin, memory and CPU % climbed.
 * Looks like some PHP or Apache process is in infinite loop. I’m trying to find
   a way to kill the process and recover from this.
 * I tried rebooting VPS and renaming the root directory, but nothing works.
 * Can any one help? Site is down.
 * Thanks.

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 *  Thread Starter [ls41](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ls41/)
 * (@ls41)
 * [16 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-and-apache-process-in-infinite-loop/#post-1398417)
 * Blog is hosted at Dreamhost and they suggested to place a blog restore request.
   I’m trying avoid that and find a way to kill the rouge process.
 *  [mwhities](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mwhities/)
 * (@mwhities)
 * [16 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-and-apache-process-in-infinite-loop/#post-1398905)
 * I’m experiencing essentially the samething. Dedicated server and apache causes
   the system CPU usage to sky-rocket.
 * Looking in the logs for the site, the servers IP is constantly reconnecting/refreshing
   the page.
 * xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx – – [28/Apr/2010:09:13:32 -0500] “GET / HTTP/1.0” 200 0 “-” “
   WordPress/2.9.2; [http://www.website.com&#8221](http://www.website.com&#8221);
 * Get a constant lost of the above paste from the log files.
 *  [dmacke](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dmacke/)
 * (@dmacke)
 * [16 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-and-apache-process-in-infinite-loop/#post-1398909)
 * any luck?? – I have the same exact problem! No answers.
 * it launches multiple apache/http threads and eventually crashes server.

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 * [php](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/php/)

 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 3 replies
 * 3 participants
 * Last reply from: [dmacke](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dmacke/)
 * Last activity: [16 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-and-apache-process-in-infinite-loop/#post-1398909)
 * Status: not resolved

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