A bottleneck can occur in the user network or storage fabric or within servers where there is excessive contention for internal server resources, such as CPU processing power, memory, or I/O (input/output). As a result, data flow slows down to the speed of the slowest point in the data path.

How do I find bottlenecks in Linux?

We can find bottleneck in linux server performance using following method..

1. Take the output of TOP & mem, vmstat commands in one notepad.
2. Take sar output of 3 months.
3. check the variation in processes & usage at the time of implementation or change.
4. If the load is unusual since the change.

What is a bottleneck in operating system?

In software engineering, a bottleneck occurs when the capacity of an application or a computer system is limited by a single component, like the neck of a bottle slowing down the overall water flow.