Team,
Here is another sample point. See the 9 second delay on the server I keep
speaking about. This problem shows across multiple servers. The one we are
investigating is http://67.159.60.59/status. Same nginx.conf across all.

root@pa:~# clear; ./status.rb
Active connections: 17442
server accepts handled requests
291457 291457 499538
Reading: 242 Writing: 3838 Waiting: 13362
http://208.53.158.42/status 0.07 seconds

Active connections: 11545
server accepts handled requests
8720635 8720635 13904180
Reading: 154 Writing: 1370 Waiting: 10021
http://67.159.60.37/status 0.03 seconds

Active connections: 3807
server accepts handled requests
3758087 3758087 27448407
Reading: 44 Writing: 213 Waiting: 3550
http://66.90.101.97/status 0.04 seconds

Active connections: 8855
server accepts handled requests
6865763 6865763 10978021
Reading: 133 Writing: 988 Waiting: 7734
http://208.53.158.75/status 0.03 seconds

Active connections: 10571
server accepts handled requests
194174 194174 467424
Reading: 106 Writing: 2147 Waiting: 8318
http://67.159.60.59/status 9.03 seconds

Active connections: 8354
server accepts handled requests
4314517 4314517 6679147
Reading: 195 Writing: 1954 Waiting: 6205
http://208.53.158.200/status 0.03 seconds