Enfold site constantly causing resource issues on server

Two things:

1) #337724 talking about sidebar problems with the upgrade to Enfold 3 seems to have been ignored. Why?

2) I have something like 50 websites on my server, none of which have ever had lasting problems. All that changed when I put a wordpress site using the Enfold theme online. There are quite a few plugins being used, but none that have caused an issue with other themes so far. With Enfold active, the site is using 100% of cpu resources anything up to a dozen times a day. This is in turn affecting other sites.

I have seen several tickets all with more or less exactly the same issue; inordinate cpu or other resource usage by this theme. With all the problems I’ve been having, I’ve gone so far as to sign up with an alternative host with higher specs (a vps) to run my sites – primarily to run wordpress sites. I shouldn’t be having to do this just in order to use a wordpress theme. I’m desperately working to create a duplicate site so that I can work on using another theme on it, to see what difference it makes on a live install.

There’s nothing obvious I can ask you to answer, other than maybe you can recommend something to test the install and theme to say exactly what is using all the resources. All I can do is say that the comment made by someone; that you’re not working on a performance update, perhaps needs rethinking. I saw a comment from one moderator that he had loads of sites using enfold without problems, which is fine, but that doesn’t explain why quite a few people seem to have this sort of issue.

I won’t provide login details for this post as the site is currently being moved to new hosting, so there’s no point at present.