Let’s take a closer look at the ways to reduce the Physical Memory Usage in cPanel for WordPress. As part of our WordPress Support Service, Bobcares handle your WordPress concerns, no matter how trivial.

How to fix Physical Memory Usage cPanel for WordPress?

There are some quick fixes for physical memory utilization if we’re using WordPress. We can certainly use all of these techniques to make WordPress use less RAM.

WP Crontrol and Heartbeat Control

We already know that WordPress will automatically save the draft of an article when we are composing it. This is a procedure. If there are more of these processes, both the physical memory utilization and the CPU usage will grow. Therefore, we either need to block such processes or lengthen the delay.

We can disable such processes or lengthen the time interval with the aid of the Heartbeat control plugin. Without a doubt, we can configure the plugin and install it. If the processes are no longer necessary, we can modify them or turn them off.

Another plugin we can use is called WP Crontrol, and it works similarly. It’s a sophisticated plugin that gives us the ability to turn off more processes. All the processes with minimal usage can have longer intervals.

This might be a common problem we encounter if we use WooCommerce. The aforementioned plugins can definitely be used to reduce physical memory.

Some themes and plugins can be a pain.

Some plugins and themes might be running numerous processes. To put it a little more technically, themes and plugins that use ajax-based scripts are largely to blame for raising the physical memory requirements of cPanel.

Disabling all the plugins and themes we are not using will be the straightforward solution in this case. We can also try swapping out a memory-intensive plugin for one that uses less memory.

Additionally, we can guarantee that each theme and plugin is up to date. Sometimes, an out-of-date plugin might be acting strangely.

Recommended Plugins and Settings

Let’s look at a quick list of the WordPress plugins we should use before we wrap things up.

• A plugin for caching, such as WP Rocket or W3 Total Cache.
• As there is a lot of memory required for the security plugin, it may be necessary to increase the physical memory. We can try turning it off temporarily and checking the stats again after a short while. We advise scanning the entire website before disabling it. The physical memory usage may increase if there is malware.
• Always have a backup plugin handy. Make sure the plugin is taking backups when there is little traffic on the website if we are automating backups.

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Conclusion

This whole thing was about fixing how cPanel used physical memory, to sum it up. The methods listed above can be used to decrease the use of physical memory. We can always upgrade the hosting or switch to a cloud server if the issue persists.