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Ask HN: server I/O spike
I have an app on linode and they sent me an email letting me know of a spike in disk I/o that lasted about 2 hour ad now it's back to normal.
What should I look at when diagnosing what happened?
Weird things at first glance:
1) A spike of incoming network traffic happened at 22:00
2) A spike of outgoing network traffic between 2:00 to 4:00
3)Disk I/O between 6:00 and 8:00
- rhizome 15y agoCheck your logs to find out what was going on.
- eps 15y agoCheck your cron jobs too, including those run under non-root accounts.
- onur 15y agoYou can check the access logs of your server. Probably this is caused by a bot crawling your site and you will see the same IP over and over there. But I'm totally assuming you have a site hosted there which has some kind of database dependence and lots of pages to crawl.
- joaquin_win 15y agoThanks, Any tools to help me along?
- flannell 15y agoYep, same for me. I've just setup a Linode server today in their London DC.
- flannell 15y agoSorry, meant to say it happened to me to! Same time and everything.
- joaquin_win 15y agoThat's weird, do you think it's related? Maybe a bot like onur said indexing all sites on that ip range?