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Poor Disk Performance

Brendan Gregg

From these outputs I try to determine if the problem is: - **The workload**: High-latency disk I/O is commonly caused by the workload applied. Rotational disks have extra latency from head seeks for random I/O, and spin ups from the idle state. Note the sdb latencies range from 32 ms to over 2 seconds! Hit Ctrl-C to end.

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Comparisons of Proxies for MySQL

Percona

MySQL router, after the 2048 connection, could not serve anything more. Let us take a look also the latency: Here the situation starts to be a little bit more complicated. Let us take a look also the latency: Here the situation starts to be a little bit more complicated. That allows it to go a bit further. and ProxySQL 6.6k.

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Poor Disk Performance

Brendan Gregg

From these outputs I try to determine if the problem is: - **The workload**: High-latency disk I/O is commonly caused by the workload applied. Rotational disks have extra latency from head seeks for random I/O, and spin ups from the idle state. The latencies here look like they are a mix of normal speed (~1.9 Hit Ctrl-C to end.

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Poor Disk Performance

Brendan Gregg

From these outputs I try to determine if the problem is: - **The workload**: High-latency disk I/O is commonly caused by the workload applied. Rotational disks have extra latency from head seeks for random I/O, and spin ups from the idle state. Note the sdb latencies range from 32 ms to over 2 seconds! Hit Ctrl-C to end.

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A thorough introduction to bpftrace

Brendan Gregg

For example, iostat(1), or a monitoring agent, may tell you your average disk latency, but not the distribution of this latency. For smaller environments, it can be of more use helping eliminate latency outliers. Block I/O latency as a histogram. This traces block I/O, and shows latency as a power-of-2 histogram.

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SQL Server I/O Basics Chapter #2

SQL Server According to Bob

The caching of data pages and grouping of log records helps remove much, if not all, of the command latency associated with a write operation. Action Description Manual Checkpoint – Target Specified I/O latency target set to ​​ the default ​​ of ​​ 20ms.

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