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I run a fairly active Wordpress blog and in the last 24 hours or so my CPU usage has been around 60 - 100%. My host claims not to be able to tell me what is causing these spikes but they tell me just to experiment with uninstalling various plugins.

Is there a way I can see the scripts that are causing this?

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    do you have root console access? – Alex Dec 31 '12 at 00:52
  • No, it's a shared hosting environment. – skarz Dec 31 '12 at 00:54
  • You are running a WordPress blog, which can be quite the heavyweight. Are you sure you're not simply getting a boost in traffic as of late? – Brad Dec 31 '12 at 00:55
  • Then how do you know the CPU usage of an shared server, if you do not have console access? you using a custom script based on a function like `sys_getloadavg()` ? And have in mind, that on shared environment.. it ain't only use consuming resources. – Alex Dec 31 '12 at 00:55
  • @w0rldart I'm viewing CPU usage through Cpanel. – skarz Dec 31 '12 at 01:04
  • @JordanMeeter oh I see, and you sure it's YOUR cpu usage and not overall? – Alex Dec 31 '12 at 01:05
  • @w0ldart isn't that what Cpanel is supposed to reflect? it says my resources have been limited due to the high CPU usage... – skarz Dec 31 '12 at 01:18

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I think you need the P3 (Plugin Performance Profiler) plugin to see which plugins are slowing down your WordPress site.

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  • Will that accurately measure load on CPU though? That only seems to measure plugins that load in the web page... What if a plugin runs entirely in the background? – skarz Dec 31 '12 at 02:12