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More powerfull cpu

In my case is more significant the power of a single CPU core than the total number of CPU. (In my current dedicated server I have disabled the hipertheading)

I'm testing you're server in order to transfer a performance critical application I have in a dedicated server. My current bottle neck is on disk io so I thought that your ssd based service will solve my performance issues but:

Although the SSD increases the respond time of the first run of a query, all subsequent queries are CPU bounded and are significant slower than my current non-SSD dedicated server.

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  • Sep 11, 2018

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    Hi, We just have launched High-CPU Droplets which are powered by some of Intel's most powerful processors available and optimized for compute intensive workloads. You can learn more about these Droplets here: https://blog.digitalocean.com/introducing-high-cpu-droplets/ Feel free to email me directly if you have any questions.
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  • xavier commented
    11 Sep, 2018 06:51pm

    im not really asking for much here just raise the cache sizes in the cpus a little more and at least 124mb - 200mb swap since my old provider has unmetered bandwith 2 cpus 512mb plan with a 1gb swap all for just 1 dollar more the only thing about it was the speed was a little lower then the one provided here

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  • Moisey Uretsky commented
    11 Sep, 2018 06:51pm

    Hi Xavier,

    We're going to look into it =]

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  • xavier commented
    11 Sep, 2018 06:51pm

    awesome =]

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  • Morthawt commented
    11 Sep, 2018 06:51pm

    Better CPU's are always going to improve everything.

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  • xavier commented
    11 Sep, 2018 06:51pm

    well you can alway make swaps but its better for those people who dont know how to make them if it comes premade in the plan. what i really want is a better cpu

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  • rogerdpack commented
    11 Sep, 2018 06:51pm

    me too, it seems odd to me that linode lets you "use your neighbors cpu" (up to 8 cores) but with DO you're stuck with always exactly 1...

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  • Moisey Uretsky commented
    11 Sep, 2018 06:51pm

    We will be making some CPU updates on the smaller plans in the next 2-3 weeks =]

    Any existing customers will be able to upgrade with just a shutdown on the command line and a "Boot" from the control panel.

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  • Di commented
    11 Sep, 2018 06:51pm

    Linode just recently went rambo on the CPU core giving every plan the ability to burst to 8 cores. Not saying that it's a good idea, but being able to burst to 2X the current number of cores seems reasonable.

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  • Ralph Tang commented
    11 Sep, 2018 06:51pm

    Hi,

    Can I confirm that Digital Ocean will be making CPU speed upgrades in the next week or so? I'm really looking forward to it!

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  • mohd sadiq commented
    11 Sep, 2018 06:51pm

    Please, when making an cpu updates , write a blog post or email existing users.

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  • TribalInstincts commented
    11 Sep, 2018 06:51pm

    Can I just go ahead and add all 10 votes here? This is huge for me right now.

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  • Eugene ElJefe Cook commented
    11 Sep, 2018 06:51pm

    Any update on this? Was this done?

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  • Matt Razza commented
    11 Sep, 2018 06:51pm

    Also looking for more info on this.

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  • Morthawt commented
    11 Sep, 2018 06:51pm

    Moisey Uretsky, will you be notifying customers of when they should reboot their servers to get better CPU speed?

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  • Andreas Madantzis commented
    11 Sep, 2018 06:51pm

    Thanks for indicating that, i m having a very similar situation

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  • Moisey Uretsky commented
    11 Sep, 2018 06:51pm

    We're looking into this request and seeing what we can do about it, no clear ETA on it yet, if we go down this route we will be providing updates regarding it and we are also investigating a new engineering tab that will keep all of our release information easily browse-able as well as current work so that customers are better informed of active and planned development.

    Thanks

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  • Moisey Uretsky commented
    11 Sep, 2018 06:51pm

    If we scaled up the resources on the existing plans and hypervisors it could lead to worse overall performance for customers.

    By the same token to accomodate new plans we would need to provision new hardware, which would mean that our inventory process management is now fulfilling requests for different types of servers based on the usage of different types of plans which makes it much harder to scale operations because instead of keeping track of just "usage" we have to now track usage of multiple product lines.

    The other difference is that cores do not translate to "cpu speed", they do translate to the ability to parallel process better but smaller plans do come with less resources so having more cores wouldn't necessary provide a larger boost for a particular application.

    So it's a bit more complex than it first seems.

    Thanks

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  • Matt Razza commented
    11 Sep, 2018 06:51pm

    Thanks for the response. Hopefully we can get more information soon. Would love to use your service but the CPU just isn't cutting it atm.

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  • Moisey Uretsky commented
    11 Sep, 2018 06:51pm

    If you're having an issue please comment here so we can get more feedback to understand customer usage =]

    What stack/app are you running, where is the limitation/bottleneck that you are hitting, etc.

    Thanks

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  • Scott R. commented
    11 Sep, 2018 06:51pm

    Technically, for the price of linode with 1GB of ram, DO gets you 2 cores at full utilization, with 2GB of ram

    DO has more ram, less CPU

    Depending on your tasks, particular with caching, you can do tradeoffs

    Running a website?

    APC, static caching, and varnish can eat a lot of ram, but it reduces CPU usage

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