hypervisor-steal-time-misread-as-process-cpu

On Hostinger KVM VPS, high ‘CPU utilization’ is often hypervisor steal time (vmstat st column), not actual process load. During audit, top showed 64.5% steal, load avg 12.66 on 8 cores — the queue pile-up was from stolen ticks, not our processes. Always run vmstat 1 and check the st column before attributing CPU issues to application code.

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