new version high load?

Hi @igneous, thanks for letting us know.

Not necessarily related to load in the traditional sense (scans, updates etc.), we released a 7.11.3 last night to combat a problem decoding a JSON value on some sites. If your site is connected to Wordfence Central, your server may have been repeatedly retrying if it was experiencing the error and could explain the high load.

If you’re not connected to Central, or 7.11.3 displays the same behavior then I would try restarting Apache/your web server first. I say this because plugin updates can occasionally cause a process to get stuck.

If the slowdown continues, any information from your error log or processes with high % usage may help us work out what could be happening.

Thanks,
Peter.

I am also having this issue.

After an update from last night, the server load spiked up so much I kept receiving the 508 resource limit reached screens for all my WP sites.

I will try downgrading or temporary disabling wordfence until next version update.

Update:

It turn out my host server was having some network issues that made it very difficult for WP and all plugins to connect with other servers to perform efficiently.

This very slow network connection caused a sort of constant reconnect timeout that exhausted the server resources to a 508 error.

Server network is fine now where WP and Wordfence can retrieve needed data and now runs smoothly.