I’m using a plugin called userpro that is kind of like an alternative to buddypress. The member directory is the page that calls up the users. I actually cloned the website to my local pc so see more in detail what was going on. MySQL reported about 2400 selects per second when I brought up the page. When I bring up the user page in wp-admin it peaks at 300 selects per second. They are essentially doing the same thing. But I’m a bit confused because my database is 83mb.. the entire website together is 2gigs. My web host (linux centros 6) has 4 gigs of ram. I’m not exactly an expert on how memory is handled but it seems like it should be enough to cover the website.