CPU usage creeping up

Warning: anecdotal only

I’m seeing CPU usage creeping up over a period of days on two near-identical VPSes I am running Formicaio on right now. 4CPU 8GB RAM
Both have around 200 active nodes and a couple of hours or so after starting, all nodes are active and both boxes sit at load avgs of 4-6. But after a couple of days both are now showing 15 min avgs of 16-18. I have noticed this consistently recently. One solution is to kill off a few nodes until the load goes back down and then restart then odes at 2 min intervals but again after a few days the load avg creeps up. In any case this is too hands-on for production use.

Anybody else seeing similar?

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I’ve seen performance degradation that could align with that. Latency seems to be creeping up from under 1 second to 2-3 seconds for my smallish file test.

I’ve also seen my node runners working harder, which I attributed to more network usage, etc. However, it could be anything ofc.

It’s still running very well though and very usable for IMIM, video streaming, etc.

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Yes, I noticed the same behavior.
This is even more true with old nodes that were stopped and restarted. With new nodes it seems the CPU usage increases slowly over time.

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Wonder why this is happening to some, and I have not seen a marked increase. A few % for 200 nodes is just variance to me since it seems to remain the same rage of CPU usage on my 4 machines here

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My VPS’ are running at the same CPU level they have been for weeks, so no change for mine either.

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