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Ask HN: Experience DigitalOcean stolen cpu is very high?
Hi HN,
I heard good thing about DigitalOcean and try it out recently. I replay my production traffic on same specs and too my suprise. I constantly have 50% stolen cpu. I'm using 16GB/8core instances.
I don't know if anyone has same experience? I tried to spin up many servers to hope I can get move to a less noisy underlying host. but the result remains.
Anyone has that high stolen cpu on DigitalOcean?
- posguy 10y agoI'm not a DO user, but in the lowend world high CPU steal is a sign of a bad host. I wouldn't renew and would attempt to cancel my box if I saw CPU steal that high. Even on my Munin box, which is pounding 4 cores with 50% usage per core or more 24/7, I see CPU steal hover around 10%. I pay $24 a year for that box.
- kureikain 10y agoThanks. I pay $240/month for the box :(. That's why I'm a little bit surprise when I saw that much stolen CPU like this one: https://cl.ly/232r1k1r2z0p https://cl.ly/232r1k1r2z0p
- posguy 10y agoJeez, I assume your using a high memory plan? I'd just go and get a dedi at that price point, or pay someone like ImpactVPS if you want many containers. We pay $190 a quarter for 32GB of ram and a few dozen IPv4s along with 128 vCPUs, 16TB B/W and 300GB SSD. Here is a $49 a month dedi that will give you better performance than DO - https://turnkeyinternet.net/dedicated-servers/dedicated-server-dual-hexacore-32gb-let/ https://turnkeyinternet.net/dedicated-servers/dedicated-serv...
- gtirloni 10y agoThis is the first time I've ever heard about "stolen CPU". What is this and how do you measure it?
- kureikain 10y agoYou can measure it quite easily with NewRelic installed. You will have a nice chat looks like this: https://cl.ly/232r1k1r2z0p https://cl.ly/232r1k1r2z0p Some good links about stolen cpu: http://blog.scoutapp.com/articles/2013/07/25/understanding-cpu-steal-time-when-should-you-be-worried http://blog.scoutapp.com/articles/2013/07/25/understanding-c... https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/understanding-aws-stolen-cpu-and-how-it-affects-your-apps/ https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/understanding-aws-stolen-cpu-...
- gtirloni 10y agoThanks! Learning every day :)