PHP hits 100% CPU and eats RAM at the same time Monday to Friday
- by Daniel Samuels
We run a learning platform for primary schools here in the UK and it's all been running extremely well. However at around 4PM Monday to Friday we see the same issue arise -- 1-2 PHP threads will spike to 100% CPU and gradually start eating up RAM until the server(s) fall over.
98%+ of our requests are HTTPS, these come into our Layer 7 load…