[Cialug] How to determine the cause of a Linux performance problem?

[Matthew Nuzum]

On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 8:57 AM, kristau <kristau at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 7:49 AM, Pixel // pinterface <pix at kepibu.org>
> wrote:
>
> > Greetings, Linux Experts!
> >
> > I have a problem I am hoping you will be able to help me figure out.
> >
> > I've got a VPS.  It runs a fair few things (LAMP stack; mail server;
> > etc.), but has always performed admirably.  A couple of days ago,
> > performance took a nosedive and I have been unable to recover.
> >
>
> Have you contacted the VPS provider? What is your Service Level Agreement
> for that VPS? Depending on how densely they've consolidated their hosts,
> you may be suffering from someone else's runaway VM hogging up that host's
> resources or a mis-configured host/cluster.
>
>
Or the sign of an impending failure. I agree, next step is probably to
contact the host. They may migrate you to another server (which can often
be done pretty seamlessly) or throttle someone if they're being abusive.

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