PADogRescue

This issue has been resolved. I’m not sure exactly why this fixed the issue, but it did. I changed the account that is used to connect to the WordPress database from ‘root’ to a new account I created.

Ok, I will try that. Thank you for your help. Do you have a link that gives good step by step instructions on how to properly install wordpress for an environment like mine?

No, that capture was from when it was working. Here is one from when it is just spinning. It happens from multiple machines on multiple browsers.

bitnami@MyVMName:~$ sudo top
top – 11:33:51 up 1 day, 3:14, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.03, 0.05
Tasks: 241 total, 2 running, 239 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
%Cpu(s): 0.7 us, 0.0 sy, 0.0 ni, 99.3 id, 0.0 wa, 0.0 hi, 0.0 si, 0.0 st
KiB Mem: 1719052 total, 1295004 used, 424048 free, 79560 buffers
KiB Swap: 0 total, 0 used, 0 free. 429316 cached Mem

PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
782 root 20 0 212868 15716 4564 S 0.7 0.9 0:45.10 waagent
1 root 20 0 33636 2976 1468 S 0.0 0.2 0:04.52 init
2 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kthreadd
3 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:01.10 ksoftirqd/0
5 root 0 -20 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kworker/0:0H
7 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:04.09 rcu_sched
8 root 20 0 0 0 0 R 0.0 0.0 0:06.81 rcuos/0
9 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 rcuos/1
10 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 rcuos/2
11 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 rcuos/3
12 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 rcuos/4

Hi Steve. Yes, it is a Linux virtual machine running on Azure. Here are the results of running “top” when hitting the site.

bitnami@MyVMName:~$ sudo top
top - 11:19:10 up 1 day,  3:00,  1 user,  load average: 0.14, 0.06, 0.06
Tasks: 255 total,   2 running, 253 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
%Cpu(s):  0.0 us,  0.3 sy,  0.0 ni, 99.3 id,  0.0 wa,  0.0 hi,  0.3 si,  0.0 st
KiB Mem:   1719052 total,  1385868 used,   333184 free,    79528 buffers
KiB Swap:        0 total,        0 used,        0 free.   427752 cached Mem

  PID USER      PR  NI    VIRT    RES    SHR S %CPU %MEM     TIME+ COMMAND
  782 root      20   0  212868  15716   4564 S  0.3  0.9   0:44.69 waagent
39054 root      20   0   25100   1740   1160 R  0.3  0.1   0:00.04 top
    1 root      20   0   33636   2976   1468 S  0.0  0.2   0:04.50 init
    2 root      20   0       0      0      0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 kthreadd
    3 root      20   0       0      0      0 S  0.0  0.0   0:01.08 ksoftirqd/0
    5 root       0 -20       0      0      0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 kworker/0:0H
    7 root      20   0       0      0      0 S  0.0  0.0   0:04.05 rcu_sched
    8 root      20   0       0      0      0 R  0.0  0.0   0:06.74 rcuos/0
    9 root      20   0       0      0      0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 rcuos/1
   10 root      20   0       0      0      0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 rcuos/2
   11 root      20   0       0      0      0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 rcuos/3
   12 root      20   0       0      0      0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 rcuos/4
   13 root      20   0       0      0      0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 rcuos/5
   14 root      20   0       0      0      0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 rcuos/6
   15 root      20   0       0      0      0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 rcuos/7
   16 root      20   0       0      0      0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 rcuos/8
   17 root      20   0       0      0      0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 rcuos/9
   18 root      20   0       0      0      0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 rcuos/10
   19 root      20   0       0      0      0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 rcuos/11
   20 root      20   0       0      0      0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 rcuos/12
   21 root      20   0       0      0      0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 rcuos/13
   22 root      20   0       0      0      0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 rcuos/14
   23 root      20   0       0      0      0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 rcuos/15
   24 root      20   0       0      0      0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 rcuos/16
   25 root      20   0       0      0      0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 rcuos/17

I can’t be the only one to ever run into this request. Anyone able to help?