[BlueOnyx:25200] Re: High Load Average

[Fungal Style]

Try disabling XMLRPC in wordpress sites, it is the script kiddie spammers trying to post to the comments via a proxy.

Check the PHP-CGI and php-fpm users, that will usually tell you the site they are hitting.

Also some unscrupulous SEO people will use that to try and bring up unique hits to make it look like they are doing a good job and the web owner needs to convert them or words to that effect… sad, I see it too many times.

Regards
Brian.

From: Blueonyx <blueonyx-bounces at mail.blueonyx.it> on behalf of Richard Sidlin <richard at helpinternet.co.uk>
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Date: Tuesday, 9 November 2021 at 1:30 am
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Subject: [BlueOnyx:25196] High Load Average

5210R

Just recently the load average is going crazy and of course the server slows right down. I have about 10 low to medium usage websites, no emails. Mainly Wordpress sites.

In Top, there is a lot of either php-fpm or php-cgi depending on the php settings that constantly use loads of CPU. This is happening across most sites, not just one causing an issue.

Can anyone point me in the right direction on how to trace where the problem is?

Thanks


Richard
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