Nginx & FrostBite
Hey FrostBite, I’ve been mapping request latency over the last few months and found a recurring pattern—kind of like a glacial cycle in the data. You ever see something like that in your ice observations?
Yeah, glaciers have their own slow rhythm, but the same idea of a repeating cycle shows up in anything that has memory. In the ice I see the same tiny shifts in crystal structure every time a temperature change hits, and the pattern usually tells me what’s coming next. In your latency graph, I’d look for the same anchor points—maybe a scheduled job, a cooling cycle, or a burst of traffic. If the peaks line up with something obvious, that’s the ice’s version of a quick fix. If not, it’s probably a deeper anomaly that will need a longer watch.
Sounds like we’ll have to pull a full request trace and cross‑reference the timestamps with the job queue. If the peaks line up, we can tweak the worker limits. If not, let’s roll a deeper profiler and see what’s hiding in the buffer.
Sounds like a good plan—just don’t forget to log the temperature of the CPU as well; heat changes are the ice’s loudest secret. Let’s see if the workers are the real culprit or if the buffer is hiding a deeper shift.