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bottleneck
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A lessening of throughput. It often refers to networks that are overloaded, which is caused by the inability of the hardware and transmission lines to support the traffic. It can also refer to a mismatch inside the computer where slower-speed peripheral buses and devices prevent the CPU from being used to its fullest capacity.


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Penn State Dairy Alliance wants you to take a more targeted approach with a program to identify bottlenecks to dairy profitability.
Reason: Increased costs and delays in ethanol plant construction, transportation bottlenecks in moving ethanol to key markets and rising corn prices.
Unfortunately, over time the databases developed I/O bottlenecks that the initial SAN deployment could not fully handle.
 
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