: Lfd on ns3.domain.com: Excessive resource usage: Account (26661) We lease a dedicated server with the following specs: Dual Hyperthreaded Quad Core 12GB RAM 750gb RAID1 We recently

@Steve110

Our sysadmins are not competent. We've asked them to look into it before and they've said they can't find the cause.


Not to sound harsh, but you may need new sysadmins then. You may get lucky and get a good guess from someone here, but finding the root cause for stuff like this often takes time, lots of sniffing around in the logs, and a lot of experience - i.e. what a good sysadmin has and does. This may not an issue that can be resolved on a Q&A site.

To offer a blind guess: It could be that you are being systematically spammed with an awful lot of comments. Those comments, is my guess, all cause a request to the Akismet API, which will filter out most of them but it will cost an API request every time anyway, costing lots and lots of CPU time.

Whether this is true, you should be able to find out in Wordpress's control panel. It says somewhere (I can't remember where exactly) how many comments where filtered out using Akismet's API. If that number is insanely high, it's a possible culprit.

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