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Posted May 20, 2020 236 views
WordPressUbuntu 18.04

My droplet experiences over the top CPU usage intermittently over the week. How do I pin-point the problem? I don’t know what eats up all that CPU. Is it MySQL, is it NGINX, is it Apache, is it some Cron job, is it some rogue Wordpress script?

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bobbyiliev May 20, 2020

Hi there @rolen,

As a good starting point, I would recommend checking out the answer here on how to find the processes that are consuming the most server resources:

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/questions/how-to-find-the-processes-that-are-consuming-the-most-server-resources

Then once you know which service or process is causing the high CPU load, you can investigate this further to try and narrow it down even more.

If you are not sure, feel free to share the output here so that I could try to advise you further!

Regards,
Bobby

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