# Why is location plugin using so much CPU?

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**Created:** [November 27, 2020, 9:29am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-is-location-plugin-using-so-much-cpu/171478 "2020-11-27T09:29:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![RBoy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@RBoy](https://meta.discourse.org/u/RBoy)\
**Post date:** [July 16, 2025, 7:00pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-is-location-plugin-using-so-much-cpu/171478/9 "2025-07-16T19:00:23Z")

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A basic question, how does one know which plugin is taking how much CPU and memory? htop only shows the unicorn workers but not much resource each plugin is utilizing.

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