What is normal % CPU usage for servers? How hot do your servers run?

Jan 6 3 Comments

I joined an infra team (not Microsoft) and our servers that receive fairly simple but high volume CRUD type traffic run at an average of 10-15% CPU with occasional peaks at 60% CPU. We don't have autoscaling so it seems the strategy is to overprovision for peaks.

I don't have enough domain experience to know if this is good or bad and can't find info online.

Are we just wasting tons of money on infra?

TC: 130k us$ (canada)
Yoe: 3

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  • Oracle
    coolya

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    coolya
    Read about queueing theory. App/database technology may optimize it further
    Jan 6 0
  • Google
    100zeros

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    100zeros
    Depends on how frequent the peaks are. Look at average load. If your average load is well below peak then yes, you're wasting money. Why not invest in a scalable system? Or better yet just migrate your workload to a cloud that already has these problems figured out
    Jan 6 0
  • Apple
    fruitdevus

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    fruitdevus
    That sounds about right. Some requests are eating cpu so look into those.
    Jan 6 0