I have several hosted wordpress blogs, and I've been trying to visit them and they are really slow. I looked at my server logs and I found this

stanfordflipside.com:80 188.138.33.149 - - [17/Aug/2013:17:14:28 -0700] "POST /xmlrpc.php HTTP/1.1" 200 595 "-" "GoogleBot/1.0"
stanfordflipside.com:80 188.138.33.149 - - [17/Aug/2013:17:14:28 -0700] "POST /xmlrpc.php HTTP/1.1" 200 595 "-" "GoogleBot/1.0"
stanfordflipside.com:80 188.138.33.149 - - [17/Aug/2013:17:14:28 -0700] "POST /xmlrpc.php HTTP/1.1" 200 595 "-" "GoogleBot/1.0"
stanfordflipside.com:80 188.138.33.149 - - [17/Aug/2013:17:14:28 -0700] "POST /xmlrpc.php HTTP/1.1" 200 595 "-" "GoogleBot/1.0"
stanfordflipside.com:80 188.138.33.149 - - [17/Aug/2013:17:14:29 -0700] "POST /xmlrpc.php HTTP/1.1" 200 595 "-" "GoogleBot/1.0"
stanfordflipside.com:80 188.138.33.149 - - [17/Aug/2013:17:14:29 -0700] "POST /xmlrpc.php HTTP/1.1" 200 595 "-" "GoogleBot/1.0"
stanfordflipside.com:80 188.138.33.149 - - [17/Aug/2013:17:14:29 -0700] "POST /xmlrpc.php HTTP/1.1" 200 595 "-" "GoogleBot/1.0"
stanfordflipside.com:80 188.138.33.149 - - [17/Aug/2013:17:14:29 -0700] "POST /xmlrpc.php HTTP/1.1" 200 595 "-" "GoogleBot/1.0"
stanfordflipside.com:80 188.138.33.149 - - [17/Aug/2013:17:14:31 -0700] "POST /xmlrpc.php HTTP/1.1" 200 595 "-" "GoogleBot/1.0"
stanfordflipside.com:80 188.138.33.149 - - [17/Aug/2013:17:14:31 -0700] "POST /xmlrpc.php HTTP/1.1" 200 595 "-" "GoogleBot/1.0"
stanfordflipside.com:80 188.138.33.149 - - [17/Aug/2013:17:14:31 -0700] "POST /xmlrpc.php HTTP/1.1" 200 595 "-" "GoogleBot/1.0"


I am getting ~10 hits per second to the file /xmlrpc.php from the GoogleBot to several sites, and this seems to be slowing down the server. I am running 

tail -f 


on the log file, and can just see these requests continuing. Does anyone know why this might be happening or what you could do to stop it?


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