Yeah, I don't believe it either, but apparently I got an email from my hosting company stating I was using mre than 16% of the CPU per hour. I can only trace to two or three things I've done that might incur such a thing, but those were also a while ago. I somehow doubt Coppermine and Textpattern are at fault here. Just to be safe, I disabled Textpattern's logging completely, so as to reduce the number of queries per second being made.
Has anyone else experienced these kinds of processor spikes using either CPG or TXP? I scoured the forums to no avail. I did also call and send aplus.net an email. I'll keep everyone posted. Since I can't see error logs, top shows only my php processes, and I couldn't solve things over the phone, I bundled up all my information and shipped it off with a nice "please explain the spikes" message. 16% per hour is a lot. So either there is something really broken, or there is something back asswards with the tracking they are doing. So yeah, filed my ticket, stated I would like to resolve the issue, and will leave it at that.
The guy on the phone kept telling me to upgrade. The thing is, he couldn't tell me if the "next level" of hosting would actually allow me to function without getting any more of these exciting warnings with nno documentation or proof. Needless to say, being unable to tell me how much CPU I am using is not an effective way to convince me to upgrade.
In response to "Too much CPU":
Another one struck by the evilness of hosts.
I haven’t been able to use my e-mail and my FTP account for over a month… D:
At least…you can call ‘em. hugs Jak