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GeoDrive was designed to be a lightweight application and thus the load on the server was generally low. The overall CPU usage ranged from 4%-37% depending on workload, memory utilization ranged from 2%-23% and network utilization ranged from 0% to 92%. Highest network utilization was seen for restores of large files and highest CPU usage was for restores. Depending on the specifications of your server these numbers can vary. There are options in GeoDrive to minimize the server resource utilization such as limiting the number of threads for uploading and downloading of files from ECS and or data throttling to allow for the server to be employed for other purposes.