Randon ASCII

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

In this particular investigation, which spanned twenty months, we suspected hardware failure, compiler bugs, linker bugs, and other possibilities. Jumping too quickly to blaming hardware or build tools is a classic mistake, but in this case the mistake was that we weren’t thinking big enough.

Programming 79

Programming Hardware Cache Code 79

SQL Performance

JUNE 21, 2019

While hardware such as intelligent SANs, Solid State Disk, and other advancements have helped speed things up, wasted space in index can translate to wasted space in the buffer pool as well as wasting more I/O. SQL Server Database Maintenance plans prior to SQL Server 2016 only allowed to rebuild or reorganize all indexes.

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SQL Performance

JULY 16, 2019

A close monitoring of the hardware enthusiast community, including many of the most respected hardware analysts and reviewers paints an even more dire picture about Intel in the server processor space. This made it easier for database professionals to make the case for a hardware upgrade, and made the typical upgrade more worthwhile.

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Servers Hardware Architecture Retail 46

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Make sure your system can handle next-generation DRAM,” [link] , Nov 2011 [Hruska 12] Joel Hruska, “The future of CPU scaling: Exploring options on the cutting edge,” [link] , Feb 2012 [Gregg 13] Brendan Gregg, “Blazing Performance with Flame Graphs,” [link] , 2013 [Shimpi 13] Anand Lal Shimpi, “Seagate to Ship 5TB HDD in 2014 using Shingled Magnetic (..)

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Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

Alex Russell

OCTOBER 22, 2017

Add onto that the yawning chasm between low-end and high-end device performance thanks to chip design factors like cache sizes, and it can be difficult to know where to set a device baseline. The true median device from 2016 sold at about ~$200 unlocked. — Monica Dinculescu (@notwaldorf) September 20, 2016.

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Performance Network Benchmarking Mobile 74

John McCalpin

NOVEMBER 5, 2016

In the latest (October 2016) revision of Intel’s Instruction Extensions Programming Reference , Intel has disclosed a fairly dramatic departure from these “traditional” approaches. E.g., on Haswell you can execute two loads per cycle of any size or alignment as long as neither crosses a cache-line boundary.

Cache 40

Cache C++ Latency Hardware 40

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

how much data does the browser have to download to display your website) and resource usage of the hardware serving and receiving the website. In 2016, O’Reilly published “ Designing For Sustainability ” by Tim Frick. A particular favorite in the WordPress space is WP Super Cache. These include data transfer (i.e.

Website Performance 74

Website Performance Website Energy Performance 74

SQL Server According to Bob

DECEMBER 18, 2018

Device level flushing may have an impact on your I/O caching, read ahead or other behaviors of the storage system. FILE_FLAG_NO_BUFFERING is the Win32, CreateFile API flags and attributes setting to bypass file system cache. FILE_FLAG_NO_BUFFERING is the Win32, CreateFile API flags and attributes setting to bypass file system cache.

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