Title: Ram Memory overload, High CPU, xmlrpc.php,
Last modified: August 31, 2016

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# Ram Memory overload, High CPU, xmlrpc.php,

 *  [L12A](https://wordpress.org/support/users/l12a/)
 * (@l12a)
 * [10 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ram-memory-overload-high-cpu-xmlrpcphp/)
 * After I updated to the latest WordPress, my site kept going down due to high 
   memory/CPU usage. After 3 days of searching for the problem, I found that various
   I.P. addresses were pinging my site, only on a particular page “xmlrpc.php” a
   few thousand times a day. My hits went up by 40 000 causing an overload. (Excuse
   my lack of technical terms) I blocked the first 2 ip address, and then a new 
   one came on. I did an IP search and found “Speed host” posted the thread I have
   attached below:
    ————————————— XMLRPC Attack on WordPress Sites Posted by Ramshankar
   S on 22 April 2016 11:01 AM We have noticed XMLRPC attack on wordpress sites 
   from GoogleBots for which the alloted resources of the hosting packages were 
   exhausted and “Resource Limit Is Reached” error was seen.
 * The issue has been identified by our server administrators and the abusive IP
   addresses have been blocked on our network.
 * —–
    222.186.60.102 46.45.144.2 161.202.17.152 125.212.207.77 192.41.71.208 185.103.252.174
   185.106.92.140 85.143.223.208 112.217.161.210 185.103.252.173 104.238.181.185
   184.172.202.212 5.44.154.253 —————————-
 * My question, has anyone else had this problem recently?
    Is this due to a WordPress
   vulnerability? Am I doing the right thing blocking googlebots – assuming they
   are googlebots?

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 *  [webdesignerchristian](https://wordpress.org/support/users/webdesignerchristian/)
 * (@webdesignerchristian)
 * [10 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ram-memory-overload-high-cpu-xmlrpcphp/#post-7319071)
 * this article may shed light
    [https://wordpress.org/support/topic/recent-new-xmlrpcphp-brute-force-password-guessing-attack-details?replies=23](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/recent-new-xmlrpcphp-brute-force-password-guessing-attack-details?replies=23)
 *  [mjtheme](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mjtheme/)
 * (@mjtheme)
 * [10 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ram-memory-overload-high-cpu-xmlrpcphp/#post-7319189)
 * hi
    yeah I also have this problem, my wordpress site have used a lot of ram. 
   and I dont know what I have to do

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

 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * Last reply from: [mjtheme](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mjtheme/)
 * Last activity: [10 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ram-memory-overload-high-cpu-xmlrpcphp/#post-7319189)
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