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Solving slow Pods

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Solving slow Pods

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- [Instructor] Here's another common problem that you might encounter. You have a pod that's running and ready. However the app itself is running really, really, really slowly. The app in the pod is definitely running more slowly than it does via Docker on your machine or how it ran in its previous medium like a VM. What gives, how do we fix something like this? There are several reasons why you might find yourself in this situation. The foremost common ones are either bugs in applications that only manifest when it's run within a container orchestrator, aggressive resource limits defined within the pod like the pod requesting much less memory than the application really needs during peak operations, frequent restarts, or not enough copies or replicas of that pod are running to satisfy the number of requests that it's getting. We already saw what we could do to address pods that restart frequently or have aggressive resource limits in earlier videos. so let's spend some time learning…

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