MBU is one division, and that is why it is so easy to get wrong. The answer defines both operands precisely on a real server and then shows six ways a dashboard can report a number 30 points off.
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How would you measure MBU on a running server? What do you time, what do you count, and which numbers make the result wrong?
MBU is one division, and that is why it is so easy to get wrong. The answer defines both operands precisely on a real server and then shows six ways a dashboard can report a number 30 points off.
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