July 2026

One of the most common complaints from application teams is: “The server is slow.” However, “slow” can mean many different things. It could be caused by high CPU utilization, memory pressure, excessive disk I/O, network latency, application bottlenecks, or even database locks. Many administrators immediately restart services or reboot the server without identifying the root […]

If you’ve ever been asked, “The CPU is only 20%, but the Load Average is 15. What’s happening?”—this article is for you. One of the most misunderstood concepts in Linux is Load Average. Many engineers assume that a high load average automatically means high CPU utilization. In reality, that’s not always true. As a Linux