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Re:Operating a large distributed system in a reliable way: p... by learnfromstory on Wednesday July 17, 2019 @09:21PM (#20465762)
Which is a good reason to hedge and replicate but NOT a reason to alert on high CPU usage of single computers.
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Re:Operating a large distributed system in a reliable way: p... by packetslave on Wednesday July 17, 2019 @10:42PM (#20466229)
You definitely want to TRACK cpu usage on individual hosts, but, yeah, I would alert on service latency instead. Symptom, not cause.
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