I agree with the sentiment of your article and I’m looking forward to seeing your follow ups. I’m always trying to keep things as simple as the problem I solve allows for.

Haha completely forgot about this comment. But i’m very gald it helped! I remember struggling with that problem for a long time.

It’s a long shot, but I had something similar on one of mine servers once. It was fixed by installing irqbalance and starting that daemon at startup.