How would I recognize the "spoon-feeding problem" on a dynamic webapp server?

Posted by Don Spaulding on Server Fault See other posts from Server Fault or by Don Spaulding
Published on 2010-03-19T16:00:32Z Indexed on 2010/03/19 16:11 UTC
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The "spoon-feeding problem", as it was recently explained to me, happens when connections to your application server are tied up feeding data across slow network connections to your clients. This makes sense to me and now I understand the importance of putting a highly-concurrent proxy in front of my app servers.

My question is, how did the first person to recognize this problem figure it out? What *nix tools and troubleshooting techniques would help me to recognize this problem if I hadn't had it explained to me?

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