Railway•6mo ago

How do i get better server performance?

I recently had to migrate a project to digital ocean due to slow performance. My question is not really project specific. I have put a few "trial projects" on railway and noticed they are not very performant vs when i deploy the identical dockerimage to minimum spec digital ocean for example. Is there some way I can pay for a better or dedicated host? The plan says "32 GB RAM / 32 vCPU per service". I'm not taking a dig at railway here, i genuinly want a solution so i can start use the platform more.

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Percy•6mo ago

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jeffOP•6mo ago

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bc 🐧🪺•6mo ago

Hey, I noticed this as well today. Just wanted to say Railway is not normally like this. I have had extremely bad performance with it the past several hours, so I think you just hit some unlucky timing. They might be getting DDoSed (happened in the past), overloaded, or similar

jeffOP•6mo ago

how many project do you have on railway?

bc 🐧🪺•6mo ago

Many I've been using railway for many months, should be resolved shortly I really think it's a one-off situation

jeffOP•6mo ago

but i dont even understand how that happens, cpu shouldn't be oversubscribed. and if someone gets ddos they can use up their CPU shares. and as long as there is enough on the host left for me then im good. and the way it reads. per pro account gets allocated. 32 GB RAM / 32 vCPU per service and my thing that was running slow was just a simple graphql api with a database.

Brody•6mo ago

what cpu do you get on your do droplet?

jeffOP•6mo ago

the smallest let me check

Brody•6mo ago

im talking about the actual cpu, not vcpu

jeffOP•6mo ago

instance_size_slug: apps-s-1vcpu-0.5gb oh i see it doesn't really say /myrounds # cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 106 model name : unknown stepping : unknown cpu MHz : 2593.904 fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 13 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx pdpe1gb rdtscp lm pni pclmulqdq vmx ssse3 fma cx16 pcid sse4_1 sse4_2 x2apic movbe popcnt tsc_deadline_timer aes xsave avx f16c rdrand hypervisor lahf_lm abm 3dnowprefetch fsgsbase bmi1 avx2 smep bmi2 erms invpcid avx512f avx512dq rdseed adx smap clwb avx512cd avx512bw avx512vl xsaveopt xsavec xgetbv1 avx512vbmi umip pku ospke avx512_vbmi2 gfni vaes vpclmulqdq avx512_vnni avx512_bitalg avx512_vpopcntdq bogomips : 2593.90 clflush size : 64 cache_alignment : 64 address sizes : 4 is there any way to get more dedicated or performant resources?

Brody•6mo ago

root@railway:/# cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor       : 0
vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
cpu family      : 6
model           : 85
model name      : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU @ 2.80GHz
stepping        : 7
microcode       : 0xffffffff
cpu MHz         : 2799.998
cache size      : 33792 KB
physical id     : 0
siblings        : 16
core id         : 0
cpu cores       : 8
apicid          : 0
initial apicid  : 0
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 13
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht syscall nx pdpe1gb rdtscp lm constant_tsc rep_good nopl xtopology nonstop_tsc cpuid tsc_known_freq pni pclmulqdq vmx ssse3 fma cx16 pcid sse4_1 sse4_2 x2apic movbe popcnt aes xsave avx f16c rdrand hypervisor lahf_lm abm 3dnowprefetch invpcid_single ssbd ibrs ibpb stibp ibrs_enhanced tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority ept vpid ept_ad fsgsbase tsc_adjust bmi1 hle avx2 smep bmi2 erms invpcid rtm avx512f avx512dq rdseed adx smap clflushopt clwb avx512cd avx512bw avx512vl xsaveopt xsavec xgetbv1 xsaves arat avx512_vnni md_clear arch_capabilities
vmx flags       : vnmi preemption_timer invvpid ept_x_only ept_ad flexpriority tsc_offset vtpr mtf vapic ept vpid unrestricted_guest vapic_reg shadow_vmcs
bugs            : spectre_v1 spectre_v2 spec_store_bypass mds swapgs taa mmio_stale_data retbleed eibrs_pbrsb gds
bogomips        : 5599.99
clflush size    : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes   : 46 bits physical, 48 bits virtual

root@railway:/# cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor       : 0
vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
cpu family      : 6
model           : 85
model name      : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU @ 2.80GHz
stepping        : 7
microcode       : 0xffffffff
cpu MHz         : 2799.998
cache size      : 33792 KB
physical id     : 0
siblings        : 16
core id         : 0
cpu cores       : 8
apicid          : 0
initial apicid  : 0
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 13
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht syscall nx pdpe1gb rdtscp lm constant_tsc rep_good nopl xtopology nonstop_tsc cpuid tsc_known_freq pni pclmulqdq vmx ssse3 fma cx16 pcid sse4_1 sse4_2 x2apic movbe popcnt aes xsave avx f16c rdrand hypervisor lahf_lm abm 3dnowprefetch invpcid_single ssbd ibrs ibpb stibp ibrs_enhanced tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority ept vpid ept_ad fsgsbase tsc_adjust bmi1 hle avx2 smep bmi2 erms invpcid rtm avx512f avx512dq rdseed adx smap clflushopt clwb avx512cd avx512bw avx512vl xsaveopt xsavec xgetbv1 xsaves arat avx512_vnni md_clear arch_capabilities
vmx flags       : vnmi preemption_timer invvpid ept_x_only ept_ad flexpriority tsc_offset vtpr mtf vapic ept vpid unrestricted_guest vapic_reg shadow_vmcs
bugs            : spectre_v1 spectre_v2 spec_store_bypass mds swapgs taa mmio_stale_data retbleed eibrs_pbrsb gds
bogomips        : 5599.99
clflush size    : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes   : 46 bits physical, 48 bits virtual

technically clock wise, you already do but no, until they move to bare metal they dont have different hardware to run your service on i also dont think this is a hardware bottleneck tbh

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