PHP process consuming all my cpu

[fcastro86]

Hello,

I have a client with a Word Press, however from time to time I check with top my server and it has a php process running for quite some time using100% cpu.

Is there a way to prevent this from happening? automatically kill php process after certain time of life?

Thanks in advance.

 

[PenguinInternet]

Have you checked the logs for the site? There's a good chance it's under a brute force attack, as per the countless other Wordpress sites suffering from this at the moment.

 

[fcastro86]

Have you checked the logs for the site? There's a good chance it's under a brute force attack, as per the countless other Wordpress sites suffering from this at the moment.

Hello, no, it is not an attack.

 

[PenguinInternet]

You need to determine what within Wordpress is causing the high load then - is it Wordpress itself, is it a module, etc. It's rare for Wordpress itself to cause a high load unless a site is either under a brute force attack or getting significant amounts of visitors.

I wouldn't recommend going down the lines of trying to kill processes automatically as you're more likely to end up with a corrupted database, etc.

Cloudlinux could be another option, however unless you're providing a fully managed service you could ask your client to look into why they are monopolising resources.