Throughput issues are generally caused by increased wait time during request processing due to contention of resources (CPU, memory, disk, thread pool, connection pool, etc.).

吞吐量问题通常是由处理请求期间因为争用资源(CPU、内存、硬盘、线程池、连接池等)而导致的等待时间增加所引起的。

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The statistics bureau then said CISA did not survey smaller mills, which increased production by about 25%, but that contention flies in the face of what is known about the small producers.

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