Re:Why I Won't Use Rimuhosting
by pyre on Thursday August 27, 2009 @05:30PM
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But they had already capped his CPU usage. I see only 3 possibilities:
* Their cap failed to actually cap his CPU usage. In this case their incompetence is at fault.
* They failed to make the cap restrictive enough. In which case, they should have just further limited his max actual CPU usage.
* The box is actually well oversold on the number of clients that are on it, and there is no possible way to 'cap' someone's CPU usage to within a reasonable level while being able to allow that person to use 100% of their cap without issue. In this case, it's also their fault for over-selling the box and for misrepresenting what a cap means (and their policy regarding caps).
* Their cap failed to actually cap his CPU usage. In this case their incompetence is at fault.
* They failed to make the cap restrictive enough. In which case, they should have just further limited his max actual CPU usage.
* The box is actually well oversold on the number of clients that are on it, and there is no possible way to 'cap' someone's CPU usage to within a reasonable level while being able to allow that person to use 100% of their cap without issue. In this case, it's also their fault for over-selling the box and for misrepresenting what a cap means (and their policy regarding caps).