Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

It's an exciting time for developments in computer performance, not just for the BPF technology (which I often [write about]) but also for processors with 3D stacking and cloud vendor CPUs (e.g., Ford, et al., “TCP on Upcoming Sapphire Rapids CPUs,” [link] Oct 2020 - [Liu 20] Linda Liu, “Samsung QVO vs EVO vs PRO: What’s the Difference?

Performance 121

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 121

Brendan Gregg

MAY 8, 2021

An average of 434 ms is awful, and a small queue size (aqu-sz) indicates it's a problem with the disk and not the workload applied. Something like: It's called "[flying height]" or "fly height," and (from that reference) was about 5 nanometers for 2011 drives. Note the sdb latencies range from 32 ms to over 2 seconds!

Performance 133

Performance Latency Speed Systems 133

All Things Distributed

JULY 11, 2011

By Werner Vogels on 11 July 2011 07:22 AM. As a part of that process, we also realized that there were a number of latency sensitive or location specific use cases like Hadoop, HPC, and testing that would be ideal for Spot. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway.

AWS 70

AWS Storage Cloud Big Data 70

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

My personal opinion is that I don't see a widespread need for more capacity given horizontal scaling and servers that can already exceed 1 Tbyte of DRAM; bandwidth is also helpful, but I'd be concerned about the increased latency for adding a hop to more memory. Ford, et al., “TCP

Performance 103

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 103

Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

It's an exciting time for developments in computer performance, not just for the BPF technology (which I often [write about]) but also for processors with 3D stacking and cloud vendor CPUs (e.g., Ford, et al., “TCP on Upcoming Sapphire Rapids CPUs,” [link] Oct 2020 - [Liu 20] Linda Liu, “Samsung QVO vs EVO vs PRO: What’s the Difference?

Performance 52

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 52

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

My personal opinion is that I don't see a widespread need for more capacity given horizontal scaling and servers that can already exceed 1 Tbyte of DRAM; bandwidth is also helpful, but I'd be concerned about the increased latency for adding a hop to more memory. Ford, et al., “TCP

Performance 52

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

Percona

MAY 2, 2023

example.net --port=27017 --username=user --authenticationDatabase=admin --db=demo --collection=events --out=/opt/backup/mongodump-2011-10-24 Note : If we don’t specify the DB name or Collection name explicitly in the above “mongodump” syntax then the backup will be taken for the entire database or collections, respectively.

Best Practices 52

Best Practices Database Storage Servers 52

Brendan Gregg

MAY 8, 2021

An average of 434 ms is awful, and a small queue size (aqu-sz) indicates it's a problem with the disk and not the workload applied. Something like: It's called "[flying height]" or "fly height," and (from that reference) was about 5 nanometers for 2011 drives. I want to see distributions and event logs. Hit Ctrl-C to end.

Performance 40

Performance Latency Speed Systems 40

Brendan Gregg

MAY 8, 2021

An average of 434 ms is awful, and a small queue size (aqu-sz) indicates it's a problem with the disk and not the workload applied. Something like: It's called "[flying height]" or "fly height," and (from that reference) was about 5 nanometers for 2011 drives. Note the sdb latencies range from 32 ms to over 2 seconds!

Performance 40

Performance Latency Speed Systems 40