Title: This theme causing server overload Last modified: August 19, 2016 --- # This theme causing server overload * [johngalt80](https://wordpress.org/support/users/johngalt80/) * (@johngalt80) * [16 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/this-theme-causing-server-overload/) * I just installed this theme and it took my server down. Looks like a big load on httpd and mysqld. Has anyone run into this problem? Viewing 6 replies - 1 through 6 (of 6 total) * [figaro](https://wordpress.org/support/users/figaro/) * (@figaro) * [16 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/this-theme-causing-server-overload/#post-1205081) * What theme? * [whooami](https://wordpress.org/support/users/whooami/) * (@whooami) * [16 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/this-theme-causing-server-overload/#post-1205116) * probably the one in the tag. * [figaro](https://wordpress.org/support/users/figaro/) * (@figaro) * [16 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/this-theme-causing-server-overload/#post-1205118) * Oh…silly me for not thinking of that 🙂 * Thread Starter [johngalt80](https://wordpress.org/support/users/johngalt80/) * (@johngalt80) * [16 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/this-theme-causing-server-overload/#post-1205254) * Yes, I’m talking about the “magazine basic” theme. I like the look and possibilities of the theme, but as soon as I installed it and started playing around with its options, my server started crawling. I was barely able to log in to restart it. * When I restarted the server, everything was back to normal. I could view some other websites I’ve got on it… speed was back to normal. But as soon as I went back to setting up the blog and this theme, the server started crawling again. Something is awfully wrong with this theme… it’s got a looping query from hell or something going on. * I’d like to know if anyone else has ever used this theme and had similar results… any solutions??? * [gazouteast](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gazouteast/) * (@gazouteast) * [16 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/this-theme-causing-server-overload/#post-1205392) * Yup – I just got hit by this as well. It hit me within 20 minutes of upgrading to WP 2.8.5 (the theme had been on the server a couple of days but unused or looked at). – first I knew about it was an email from my hosting service saying they’d **suspended by account due to server abuse** (all I had done was leave the Theme editor open and the Home page view open (both on the magazine basic theme) while I popped out to the shop and back. – the tech file they included with the email has the following data (if it helps anyone) – hundreds of entries like this one (this one obfuscated where necessary) – * username 14801 5092 1 08:46 ? S 0:00 /usr/bin/php /home/username/public_html/ domain_scriptlab/WPdev/index.php DOCUMENT_ROOT=/home/username/public_html GATEWAY_INTERFACE =CGI/1.1 HTTP_ACCEPT=*/* HTTP_HOST=www.domain_name.com HTTP_USER_AGENT=PHP/5.2.10 PATH=/bin:/usr/bin QUERY_STRING= REDIRECT_STATUS=200 REDIRECT_UNIQUE_ID=St8CqdB0PlIAABPkY2IAxxxx REDIRECT_URL=/domain_scriptlab/WPdev/wp-content/themes/**magazine-basic**/uploads/ Home-Banner.gif REMOTE_ADDR=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx REMOTE_PORT=46124 REQUEST_METHOD= GET REQUEST_URI=/domain_scriptlab/WPdev/wp-content/themes/**magazine-basic**/ uploads/Home-Banner.gif SCRIPT_FILENAME=/home/username/public_html/domain_scriptlab/ WPdev/index.php SCRIPT_NAME=/domain_scriptlab/WPdev/index.php SERVER_ADDR=xxx. xxx.xxx.xxx SERVER_ADMIN=webmaster@domain_name.com SERVER_NAME=www.domain_name. com SERVER_PORT=80 SERVER_PROTOCOL=HTTP/1.1 SERVER_SIGNATURE=
Apache/ 2.2.13 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.13 OpenSSL/0.9.7a DAV/2 mod_auth_passthrough/2.1 mod_bwlimited/ 1.4 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635 Server at [http://www.domain_name.com](http://www.domain_name.com) Port 80
? SERVER_SOFTWARE=Apache/2.2.13 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.13 OpenSSL/ 0.9.7a DAV/2 mod_auth_passthrough/2.1 mod_bwlimited/1.4 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635 UNIQUE_ID=St8CqdB0PlIAABPkY2IAxxxx * Anyone got any clues what any of this could mean? They say they’ll re-activate the account (when they get around to it) but I have to delete or fix the offending script within 24 hours, leaving it disabled until I do so, or they will permanently ban me. * Thanks in advance Gaz * [dimeco](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dimeco/) * (@dimeco) * [16 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/this-theme-causing-server-overload/#post-1205393) * Hi – I am wondering if this is the issue I had… (sort of). * I was just customizing the theme, and then saw the message to upgrade to 2.8.5, allowed WP to do it, then logged off my pc for a while. * When I came back to work on it, my admin AND public pages all loaded totally blank. * It’s not a memory issue per-say on my end, because our server is set at 64M, not 32M (php.ini). * We thought it was a script issue – totally wiped it out and reinstalled, everything worked… uploaded the theme and it went back to white. Deleted the theme, have since tried 3 others and they all work fine. * So obviously there is a bug somewhere. (I’m on a dedicated server so I haven’t gotten any complaints from our admin, BUT now that you guys mention it, for the past 2 nights my server has been crawling… I thought it was something else – but have only been working on this theme for about 2 nights!) Viewing 6 replies - 1 through 6 (of 6 total) The topic ‘This theme causing server overload’ is closed to new replies. * 6 replies * 5 participants * Last reply from: [dimeco](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dimeco/) * Last activity: [16 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/this-theme-causing-server-overload/#post-1205393) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics