Very High Memory and CPU use on Admin-Ajax

Hi there!

There are a few suggestions out there, which usually blame certain plugins for it and offer solutions. For example:

https://docs.wp-rocket.me/article/103-my-website-is-slow#admin-ajax

https://www.cloudways.com/blog/reduce-admin-ajax-php-related-server-load-wordpress/

https://kinsta.com/blog/admin-ajax/

https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/wc-speed-drain-repair/

Hope that helps!

Thank you for the reply Joel!

I’ve installed Heartbeat, deactivated it everywhere. I’ve also installed WC-SPEED-DRAIN-REPAIR.

The site now loads a lot faster, and each executable in the loading brach has struck quite significantly.

However, I’m still seeing huge memory usage at 98% of a 2GB ram used up, on average, and the CPU has gone down to 40% but it’s better than before.

Not quite sure where I look next to find a solution.

Do you have any other suggestions? I’ve uninstalled plugins to see if it was a plugin issue.

Thank you!

I’m glad that helped.

I would speak to your host and see if they have any ideas, I’m not sure why this would be the case, WooCommerce shouldn’t be using memory like that.

Hi there,

We haven’t heard back from you in a while, so I’m going to mark this as resolved – if you have any further questions, you can start a new thread.