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Linux server performance: Is disk I/O slowing your application?

June 23, 2021 by Hayden James, in Blog Linux

If your Linux server is bogged down, your first step may often be to use the top command in the terminal to check load averages. However, there are times when top shows very high load averages even with low CPU ‘us’ (user) and high CPU ‘id’ (idle) percentages. This is the case in the video […]

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