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The Morning Paper
NOVEMBER 5, 2019
File systems unfit as distributed storage backends: lessons from 10 years of Ceph evolution Aghayev et al., In this case, the assumption that a distributed storage backend should clearly be layered on top of a local file system. A distributed file system provides a unified view over aggregated storage from multiple physical machines.
Brendan Gregg
FEBRUARY 28, 2023
This talk originated from my updates to [Systems Performance 2nd Edition], and this was the first time I've given this talk in person! CXL in a way allows a custom memory controller to be added to a system, to increase memory capacity, bandwidth, and overall performance. Ford, et al., “TCP
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Smashing Magazine
AUGUST 20, 2021
During the 90s, we saw two content management systems for static sites — Microsoft FrontPage in 1996 and Macromedia Dreamweaver in 1997. These desktop applications incremented the tooling an inch closer to the modern Jamstack content management systems of today. Maintaining layouts became a particular pain point for static sites.
SQL Performance
SEPTEMBER 17, 2019
SSRS 2008 brought that component into the reporting service module. Unlike the system database tempdb, ReportServerTempDB is not recreated at startup. Caches of report results are stored in the ReportServerTempDB database and I/O performance can become an issue here. Reporting Services Infrastructure.
John McCalpin
APRIL 2, 2020
The presentation discusses a family of simple performance models that I developed over the last 20 years — originally in support of processor and system design at SGI (1996-1999), IBM (1999-2005), and AMD (2006-2008), but more recently in support of system procurements at The Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) (2009-present).
Randon ASCII
FEBRUARY 25, 2018
This was starting to look like a Windows file cache bug. Maybe something to do with multi-socket coherency of the disk and cache or ??? This bug shows up from Server 2008 R2 (Windows 7) up to the latest stable build of Windows 10 and OS fixes will take a while to propagate so you might as well be careful.
Randon ASCII
FEBRUARY 11, 2018
I immediately saw that CcmExec.exe (part of Microsoft’s System Management Server ) had 508,000 handles open, which is both a lot and also amazingly close to my zombie count. I don’t know what that means but my guess would be that that indicates more data being cached, which would be a good thing. Apparently ETDCtrl.exe (11.x),
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