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Re:A Google Cloud support engineer solves a tough DNS case by techntoke on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @08:03AM (#23245836)
> Cattle is a threshold, but when the same problem keeps coming up it's time to call the vet.

If CPU was bad, then that means that you kept running the instance on the same node. Quick was to test if it was "cattle" would have been to try on a different node

Additionally, if CPU was bad how was it not affecting other services?

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Re:A Google Cloud support engineer solves a tough DNS case by mooman219 on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @05:04PM (#23251792)
I think the issue with bad CPUs is that they'll unreliably error.
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