# Re: Quick performance deterioration when No. of clients increases

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-quick-performance-deterioration-when-no-of-clients-increases/246472>\
**Category:** NGINX\
**Created:** [October 19, 2013, 8:11pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-quick-performance-deterioration-when-no-of-clients-increases/246472 "2013-10-19T20:11:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![Rafa\_F](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/958977/32.png) [@Rafa\_F](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Rafa_F)\
**Post date:** [October 19, 2013, 8:11pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-quick-performance-deterioration-when-no-of-clients-increases/246472/1 "2013-10-19T20:11:18Z")

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This is a slight oversimplification as processes in waitio are also  
adding to the load average. Use of programs like top, iotop, mytop etc  
will give you a clearer idea of what is going on, and where your  
bottleneck lies.

Steve