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Just to add to what QHoxie said (I worked with him on this project), the site is doing Alexa top 750 traffic. Every page view would hit the db atleast a few tim
by bjclark 17y ago
Just to add to what QHoxie said (I worked with him on this project), the site is doing Alexa top 750 traffic. Every page view would hit the db atleast a few times. And it's not that the site just couldn't run off EBS volumes, but we would see massive performance spikes where EBS IOPS would slow to a crawl for a few minutes to even a couple hours.
- qhoxie 17y agoThis is a good clarification to make. It was not that our entire application ground to a halt when we flipped the switch. We would experience intermittent and extreme performance issues. We dug deep with tools like cacti and ended up being able to point only at the 'unknowns' of the shared resources and EBS.