Bottleneck
- A bottleneck happens when too much information enters one source and causes a computer to slow down or become unresponsive. For example, a website could be mentioned on a popular page that causes a bottleneck because of all the traffic sent to the web server. In this bottleneck example, the visitors trying to visit the website would encounter errors or unusually slow load times.
- A bottleneck is also the weakest or slowest stage of a program or algorithm.
Also see: DDoS, Network definitions, Slashdot effect