Performance - Load Metric (Capacity)

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A load is the utilization over a period of time of a resource such as:

How to reduce the load ?

To reduce the load, the most common technique is to implement a cache.





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A percent over a time interval. eg, “one disk is running at 90% utilization”. mean Utilization is also known as load
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