# Resource Waste/Saturation

> Running resources far below or far above healthy utilization, either wasting capacity or saturating it.

Record: `lexicon:resource-waste-saturation`
Kind: anti-pattern
Layer: [Performance Core](https://banes-lab.com/records/layer/performance-core.md)
Canonical: https://banes-lab.com/ontology/lexicon#lexicon-resource-waste-saturation

Listed in [Lexicon terms](https://banes-lab.com/api/records/lexicon.md), after [Premature Optimization](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon/premature-optimization.md) and before [Sequential Bottleneck](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon/sequential-bottleneck.md).

## Category

- [Scalability / Performance / Optimization](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon-category/scalability-performance-optimization.md)

## Negated by

- [Resource Utilization](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/resource-utilization.md)

## Linked from

- [Scalability / Performance / Optimization](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/principles/architecture-category-scalability-performance-optimization.md)