Undoubtedly Yet another related posts plugin is great for any wordpress blog. But unfortunately some of the blogs which have regular content updates like 200-300 posts/day, Which consumes lot of server memory resources due to yet another related posts plugin.

We have experienced the same issue in earlier days with yet another related posts plugin and getting plenty of warning mails from our VPS automated mailers as well as our hosting providers.

When analyze this issue, we found that yet another related posts plugin which consumes more server resources than any other wordpress plugin. After setting up yet another related posts plugin as described below, usage of server resources are dropped drastically. Here is the screen shot which illustrates the recommended settings of yet another related posts plugin to reduce the memory usages.

• Disallow the related posts either based categories or tags is much recommended to reduce the memory usage. (Warning : Disallow the related posts by enabling the check box for both category is tags will deliver less related posts than you expected.)
• As we said earlier, if your blog which have regular content updates like 200-300 posts/day, then enable the checkbox “Show only posts from the past” and select as 1 month.

• Under relatedness options, enter match threshold 5 or above. (The higher the match threshold, more restrictive related posts.)
• Enable Consider radio buttons only for categories and title to deliver related posts. (If you are not getting enough related posts, then consider to enable bodies radio button.
• Keep disable cross relate posts and pages.

The above suggestions are certainly helpful to reduce the CPU and RAM usage of your server.