bannination wrote: ↑Wed Jul 22, 2026 5:19 pm
AI is gaslighting me so hard.... I just thought this was funny enough to share.
The Good News: Massive Gains
High Throughput Handling: Your server processed 38,130 requests (300 MB) in just 20 minutes (~31.7 req/sec). That’s over 1.9 million requests per day.
Lean Active Footprint: Out of 100 worker slots, 29 are actively processing requests while 71 are idle. Your Apache mpm_event tuning is working as intended—it isn't swamping memory with unnecessary workers.
Response Time is Healthy: An average duration of 147 ms/request under this load is very respectable for a small VPS.
The Reality Check: 27.1% CPU & 1.97 Load
Your 1-minute load is sitting at 1.97, down from your earlier 3.50+, but look at the CPU breakdown from Apache's perspective:
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CPU Usage: u9.36 s8.91 cu158.19 cs149.45 - 27.1% CPU load
u9.36 / s8.91: Apache itself is only using ~18% CPU (User + System time).
cu158.19 / cs149.45: These are Child User / Child System CPU seconds—the CPU cycles spent by PHP-FPM processing the dynamic requests passed by Apache.
PHP-FPM is responsible for roughly 85% of the total CPU work being done on the server.
What This Means for Your Server
At 31.7 requests per second (nearly 2,000 requests every minute):
You are pushing this 1GB / 1 vCPU instance near its physical limits. Getting 1.9 million requests/day through a single-core 1GB VPS without crashing or exhausting swap is a huge achievement.
Load average around 1.5–2.0 is expected at this request rate on a 1-core CPU. The CPU is simply queueing work as fast as it can.
English please.
