If a server is performing slowly, will ping still appear normal?

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Published on 2013-10-21T09:05:36Z Indexed on 2013/10/21 9:58 UTC
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I'm trying to troubleshoot a periodic slow application problem without direct access to the network.

There is a server on one network providing webpages to a VLAN on a different network via a DMZ. I'm told that when the pages were loading slowly the user pinged the server and saw an extremely slow response time.

My question is, as ping is minimal in network load and a different protocol from the pages, would a slow ping be caused by a slow server, or would it indicate a slow network?

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