Category: Performance
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From the frontline: Octopus Server performance tuning
We’ve been running Octopus Deploy since 2.0 back in January 2014 as part of our head-to-head battle royale with Release Management 2013. We decided on Octopus in February and our pilot testing started in late March early April with a handful of teams and users. Our shiny server (*ahem* virtual machine) with Octopus Deploy was chugging along and we all…
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From the frontline: CPU utilization issue on Windows Server
In early August of this year, our staging and production Octopus servers as well as our NuGet server, started to suffer from a bizarre, non-stop, repeating spikes in CPU utilization. These spikes were occurring so frequently every minute that we had service interruption/downtime as the CPU utilization was at 99% for ten to fifteen consecutive minutes at times. Since we first noticed it…