Magento high CPU useage

[SergeyNikoforov]

The most common reasons of increased load

   1. Slow loading web pages - the slower the page is loaded, the slower system work
   2. Insufficient amount of RAM makes a system use the hard disk (so called “swapping”) which operates much slower than RAM
   3. Running slow processes via cron
   4. Resource consumption of third-party applications


To reduce CPU load I recommend you to optimize your Magento website.

To monitor CPU load right from Magento panel I recommend using Performance Monitoring extension by PotatoCommerce.


   ✔ Track the CPU load and RAM usage in Magento Admin Panel
   ✔ Helps to identify the causes of high server load
   ✔ View CPU and memory load history
   ✔ Check top web transactions
   ✔ Email Alerts
   ✔ Identify weak hardware

[Mindbuild]

I've hosted my Magento store on Linode. Since their last update around 17th Aug 18, my CPU utilization is constantly on hike. Before that it was at around 25% since I installed it some months before. It then gradually increased (within a span of around 15 days) and is now constantly beyond 100%. I have just around 10 products and 3 orders. I'm using Apache/Maria Db.

I think it is some hardware related issue as my development server on Linode is also at same CPU utilization, though it has almost 0 load. Still searching for the some resolution...