Title: Plugin causes database CPU Spike
Last modified: June 14, 2017

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# Plugin causes database CPU Spike

 *  [thiagoit](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thiagoit/)
 * (@thiagoit)
 * [8 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-causes-database-cpu-spike/)
 * I’ve recently activated instant article plugin and it is being impossible to 
   use it.
 * I am using plugin version 9.1 on WordPress 4.7.5. There is a query causing 100%
   usage, taking up to 5 minutes to finish. Does anyone have experienced that? Any
   clue on how this could be solved?
 * Follow below the query:
 * SELECT SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS wp_posts.ID FROM wp_posts LEFT JOIN wp_postmeta ON(
   wp_posts.ID = wp_postmeta.post_id ) LEFT JOIN wp_postmeta AS mt1 ON (wp_posts.
   ID = mt1.post_id AND mt1.meta_key = ‘_instant_article_options’ ) WHERE 1=1 AND(
   (
   wp_postmeta.meta_key = ‘_instant_article_options’ AND wp_postmeta.meta_value 
   NOT LIKE ‘%s:12:\”exclude\\_post\”;s:7:\”exclude\”;%’ ) OR mt1.post_id IS NULL)
   AND wp_posts.post_type = ‘post’ AND (wp_posts.post_status = ‘publish’) GROUP 
   BY wp_posts.ID ORDER BY wp_posts.post_modified DESC LIMIT 0, 3
 * Thanks!

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 * Last activity: [8 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-causes-database-cpu-spike/)
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