Hi Cheryl,

the most weird thing is that the sitemap is generated on demand, so when the sitemap component is not executed the realtime sitemap is not generated at all and no resources are involved.

During sitemap generation if you have a site with thosands of links it's normal that some CPU is used, generating a bunch of links for a sitemap can be a quite expensive task.

If you tracked visits to your server by your server itself( i think i've understood correctly ) the only case should be if you have enabled the images sitemap. In this case a crawler searches images in your pages to add to sitemap. All other types of sitemaps doesn't involve any page visit, because links are generated directly from database queries.

You can however do a quick test enabling sitemap cache. This will avoid a new sitemap generation every time the component links are executed, and reduce server CPU.

So if bots fetch often the sitemap a cached copy will be used and CPU saved.

Best regards

John