I'd run vmstat and look for high cs or int numbers (100k and above) to
see if you're maybe seeing an issue with that. A lot of times a
"slow" server is just too much process switching. But yeah, the
graphs you've posted don't seem overly bad.
Thanks for the tip. Here's a quick look at those numbers under that same load. Watching it for a while longer didn't show any spikes. That doesn't seem to be it, either.
$ vmstat 5
procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- --system-- ----cpu----
r b swpd free buff cache si so bi bo in cs us sy id wa
3 0 11868 34500 16048 3931436 0 0 4 2 0 0 6 2 91 1
2 0 11868 21964 16088 3931396 0 0 0 212 8667 8408 15 3 80 2
0 0 11868 37772 16112 3932152 0 0 2 249 9109 8811 34 2 62 1
2 0 11868 34068 16124 3932400 0 0 1 168 9142 9165 12 3 84 1
1 0 11868 38036 16124 3932920 0 0 8 155 9995 10904 16 4 80 1
1 0 11868 40212 16124 3933440 0 0 0 146 9586 9825 13 3 83 1
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