title: Wordpress blog hitting several CPU process on hostgator server than the limit, causing 500 server error
body: <p>I am using WordPress blog on my website <a href="http://codemink.com" rel="nofollow">CodeMink.com</a>. The Web host is hostgator's shared server. The control Panel provided by hostgator showing more then one index file processes. These processes become 10 to 20 sometimes and increase the CPU usage 8% to 12%. website goes down in this situation when total process exceeds 6 in number.. get frequent 500 internal server error. Plugins: XML sitemaps, W3TC, Wordpress SEO,</p>
  
  <p>I am also using the plugins of wordpress WP 3 TOTAL CACHE with al caching enabled. normally 15 to 20 visitor visits my website at the same time. and total 4000 page views per day</p>
  
  <p>Wordpress with latest version and The server has latest apache version. Processes list is showing something like... </p>
  
  <p>PID_<strong><em>_</em>__<em>_</em>__<em>_</em>__<em>_</em>__<em>_</em>__<em>_</em>__<em>_</em>__<em>_</em>__<em>_</em>__<em>_</em>__<em>_</em>__<em>_</em>__<em>_</em>__<em>_</em>__<em>_</em>____</strong>_CPU  Memory  <br><br>
  669 /usr/bin/php /home2/codemink/public_html/site/wp-cron.php   0%   0.1%<br><br>
  28714   /usr/bin/php /home2/codemink/public_html/site/wp-admin/admin.php    0%  0.2%<br>
  28066   /usr/bin/php /home2/codemink/public_html/index.php  0%  0.1%<br>
  31856   /usr/bin/php /home2/codemink/public_html/index.php  0%  0.1%<br>
  8534    /usr/bin/php /home2/codemink/public_html/site/wp-admin/admin.php    0%  0.2%<br>
  6018    /usr/local/cpanel/cpanel ./frontend/x3/hg/processes.php 0.3%    0.1%    <br>
  16516   /usr/bin/php /home2/codemink/public_html/index.php  0%  0.1%    <br>
  9675    /usr/bin/php /home2/codemink/public_html/site/wp-admin/admin.php    0%  0.2%<br>
  29797   /usr/bin/php /home2/codemink/public_html/index.php  0%  0.1%<br>
  5777    /usr/bin/php /home2/codemink/public_html/index.php  0.5%    0.1%    <br>
  5041    /usr/bin/php /home2/codemink/public_html/index.php  0.2%    0.1%<br>
  2373    /usr/bin/php /home2/codemink/public_html/index.php  0.1%    0.1%<br>
  3681    /usr/bin/php /home2/codemink/public_html/index.php  0.1%    0.1%<br>
  4730    /usr/bin/php /home2/codemink/public_html/index.php  0.1%    0.1%<br>
  4379    /usr/bin/php /home2/codemink/public_html/index.php  0.1%    0.1%<br>
  4293    /usr/bin/php /home2/codemink/public_html/index.php  0.1%    0.1%<br>
  3212    /usr/bin/php /home2/codemink/public_html/site/index.php 0.1%    0.1%<br>
  1030    /usr/bin/php /home2/codemink/public_html/index.php  0.1%    0.1%<br>
  5850    /usr/bin/php /home2/codemink/public_html/index.php  0.5%    0.1%<br>
  <br>Please help to recover from this situation. Thank you</p>