How much "burst" can I get in a DO cloud environment?

November 18, 2014 1k views
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There was some back and forth on CPU provisioning here. Moisey let us understand that at times of high traffic peaks the customers could use more percentage of the CPU than they would be using on average.

What I would like to know is what is the upper limit that customers can utilize the underused CPU? Let's say in the case of "1 logical core". Is it up to 1 physical core perhaps? More than 1 physical core? Something else?

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JamesMC June 22, 2016

Hello,

There is no solid answer to this type of question. As discussed in the article you linked, it's a very dynamic situation and the general rule is to "Play nice" with your neighbors. Generally you want to keep it so your monitoring is showing your CPU below 100%. Above these levels and you are using more than your assigned CPU usage and something you want to avoid. This is generally when it starts to cause issues both on the underlying hypervisor and likely within your server as well.

While the occasional spike isn't generally harmful, continued use will cause problems for everyone. In the end though there is no real solid value because it's an environment that doesn't really provide such solid numbers on the upper and lower limits.

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