Wordpress is a whore
 

Although I'm normally a huge fan of Wordpress I just HAD to share this with you all that think Wordpress isn't a resource hog

I had Wordpress installed on a dedicated box with 1GB of RAM and Wordpress was using 700MB of it, maxing out the RAM, then heading over to swap for ANOTHER 1GB and it still wanted more :Oh crap

The site was only at 10k/day average

I'm no longer a believer in the "Wordpress isn't a hog" cult

I removed Wordpress as the weapon of choice and now there's 800MB of free RAM :thumbsup

Lol thats interesting, are you sure its like that for everyone? I have it installed on a couple sites, not even close to bein that bad for us. 4500/day avg last motnh, runnen strong!

That's not quite normal, even for wp. However, WordPress does have the highest amount of DB calls per CMS that I've ever seen - and that's WITHOUT additions.

But, yeah, WP is a whore.

so far this is the second box that Wordpress has gone ape shit on. The boxes are at different companies with different admins.

The only similarities between the 2 machines is that they both are running Debian

I suggest you use a caching plugin i.e. WP-Cache: http://dev.wp-plugins.org/wiki/WP-Cache

It helped me tons when one of my pages got dugg to frontpage :thumbsup

tried it and it didn't help 1 bit :Oh crap

WPCache won't work with gzip, despite being based on jpcache. You're just as well to make a static page daily, and redirect indrect root requests to it.

Gotcha, it helped me personally so I figured I'd suggest. I guess your needs are a little different from mine :o

I have a blog script that works wonders with SE's

within the third day i get traffic from se's and google images

you can write your own cache script spermy, then you'll be basiacally serving up html pages, 0 DB and your load will drop.

what are you using instead?

I guess I'm lucky, not one problem with Wordpress acting like greedy whore here!

I love whores. They make me money.

WP is my bitch!

check your plugins
i had a few running plugins that even killed my server :)

Crazy!!! But I'm not sure it's because of wordpres..

wordpress is a hoe

yeah I nailed all of the plugins :( and it still was killing my box. I even went through at made the template as static as possible (hardlinked categories/blogroll/archieves/etc) and nuffin

BUMP for a solution.

I haven't had a wordpress site big enough to use that many resources yet :(

Solution is make your own custom blog scripts.

Techcrunch is using WP and they're probably serving up 100k pageview per day. They must have figured something out.

Use Movable type

I had a site doing 10k a day and had not experienced that issue.

I've got sites that far exceed this blog that never have a problem. I'm not really sute wtf is going on tbh and neither do the wp support guys

ooopps. i stumbled in here because my sisters name is WordPress. i thought i was gonna have to defend her honor.

sorry... carry on.

any more news on this issue ?

anything better to use than wordpress? i was gonna install in on a few domains that i plan on getting a lot of traffic to.

That's what I'd like to know as well

movabletype and joomla are both pretty good and I've not heard of people having resource issues with them

joomla is generally overkill for most peoples needs.

a bitch whore at that =)

yeah true but you're a n00b so stfu

last time I checked the db schema used by wordpress... it was horrid.. not even a hint of optimisation, wouldn't surprise me at all if it causes far more load / uses more time that necessary

wordpress does truly suck.

Not sure how to check how much ram it is using?!

Frequently when WP is going crazy it is because someone is using wp-cache but doesn't have it installed properly. It then generates more work for the server than if it were not there. That probably applies to 8 out of 10 wp-cache installs I have looked at. As a rule, the cache directory doesn't exist, else it and/or the WP config file have the wrong permissions.

Otherwise, although WP has some of the sloppiest code I have seen for the way it makes database calls, the biggest issue seems to be how well the server is configured. Credit to my techies because I know very little about that end of things, but for 3+ years I have had multiple instances of WP and other reputed hogs running on very ordinary boxes without any problems.

joomla? don't think I can agree there

what are you using?

you must be doing something wrong, 10k/day on a standard wordpress install won't kill a server...