Plugins that can spike CPU
I learned tonight that three plugins that I was running caused so much CPU usage that my hosting provider shut me down. So if you are using this, watch your CPU usage or the same might happen to you.
- Broken Link Checker – This makes sure that you don’t have any broken links. I had it running all the time. It was only 50% in accuracy. So if anyone has anything that works better I would love to know it.
- SEO auto links and related posts. This provided many links automatically from my past post history. It has the side effect of finding the same content, so it’s not the best in my opinion.
- SEO Friendly images. This automatically provides alt and title descriptions. This was the third most cpu intensive plugin.
So it looks like dynamic plug-ins can cause some serious issues.
Also I had been having a small increase in traffic lately and so reinstalled WP-Supercache plugin. I used the mod-rewrite feature which I haven’t used before, so perhaps this will make a difference.
