High CPU usage on server

  • Resolved alaid

    (@alaid)


    2 years, 3 months ago

    Hi,

    I have been using Yoast SEO for several years and it has worked excellent so far, however several days ago a situation of high CPU usage has been occurring, despite the fact that the VPS server resources were increased by 50% (6 core CPU, 10Gb RAM, 250 Gb SSD, 5 Tb Bandwidth) the high CPU usage continues, at that time it was not known exactly what was happening, but deactivating Yoast SEO normalizes the CPU usage on the server, it is activated again and this reaches almost 100%.

    The site has more than 50,000 posts and has had similar traffic for several months when Yoast SEO was working perfectly.

    I have updated all the plugins in their latest versions. I tried removing and reinstalling Yoast SEO and immediately after activating the CPU usage goes up to over 90%.

    
WordPress: 6.01
Yoast SEO Free: 19.5.1
PHP: 7.4

    I installed Yoast Test Helper, but I have no idea how to use it to find the cause of the issue, and I don’t want to break anything.

    I would like to know how to solve this situation because the site is a local newspaper and it is very slow.

    Thanks.

    • This topic was modified 2 years, 3 months ago by Marius L. J.. Reason: Edited code block position for readability
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  • Maybe the databse does some work regarding re-analyzing/re-indexing the text and URLs again? Or you’d have to re-run it again using Yoast Test Helper.

    However, not a great experience, if so, on a Website using Yoast SEO with a lot of articles like +40k.

    Hey @alaid,

    Thank you for using Yoast SEO and for reaching out!

    I understand that you are having performance issues on your site having lots of posts. As @fritex mentioned, it might be related to our SEO data optimization, but I doubt it as you mentioned that you have been running Yoast SEO for a while. If you go to Yoast SEO → Tools – is the SEO data optimization process completed?

    Have you been able to look at your server usage logs to find out what actually runs during the high usage? Without knowing more specifics, it’s hard to tell what is going on.

    This thread was marked resolved due to a lack of activity, but you’re always welcome to re-open the topic. Please read this post before opening a new request.

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