The Morning Paper

MARCH 10, 2020

Characterizing, modeling, and benchmarking RocksDB key-value workloads at Facebook , Cao et al., Or in the case of key-value stores, what you benchmark. So if you want to design a system that will offer good real-world performance, it’s really useful to have benchmarks that accurately represent real-world workloads.

Benchmarking 59

Benchmarking Storage Cache Open Source 59

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

This includes metrics such as query execution time, the number of queries executed per second, and the utilization of query cache and adaptive hash index. query cache: Disable (query_cache_size: 0, query_cache_type:OFF) innodb_adaptive_hash_index: Check adaptive hash index usage to determine its efficiency.

Performance 135

Performance Monitoring Traffic Database 135

Percona

MARCH 20, 2023

When deciding what to pick, there are many things to consider, like where the proxy needs to be, if it “just” needs to redirect the connections, or if more features need to be in, like caching and filtering, or if it needs to be integrated with some MySQL embedded automation. Given that, there never was a single straight answer.

Games 141

Games Latency Traffic Cache 141

Adrian Cockcroft

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Most publications have simply reported the benchmark improvement claims, but if you stop to think about them, the numbers dont make sense based on a simplistic view of the technology changes. So first thing to understand is that the benchmark skips a generation and compares product that differs over about a two year interval.

Benchmarking 52

Benchmarking Energy Architecture Latency 52

Brendan Gregg

JUNE 29, 2018

These have inspired me to summarize another performance activity: evaluating benchmark accuracy. Accurate benchmarking rewards engineering investment that actually improves performance, but, unfortunately, inaccurate benchmarking is more common. If the benchmark reported 20k ops/sec, you should ask: why not 40k ops/sec?

Benchmarking 40

Benchmarking Latency Cache Network 40

Percona

MARCH 23, 2023

By caching hot datasets, indexes, and ongoing changes, InnoDB can provide faster response times and utilize disk IO in a much more optimal way. Benchmark before you decide. As datasets continue to grow in size, the amount of RAM required to store and process these datasets also increases. Transparent huge pages (THP) disabled.

Performance 144

Performance Hardware Tuning Storage 144

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Looking at the industry benchmarks for US retailers , four well-known sites have backend times that are approaching – or well beyond – that threshold. Pagespeed Benchmarks - US Retail - LCP When you examine a waterfall, it's pretty obvious that TTFB is the long pole in the tent, pushing out render times for the page.

Servers 64

Servers Cache Retail Benchmarking 64

John McCalpin

APRIL 2, 2020

To show that I can criticize my own work as well, here I show that sustained memory bandwidth (using an approximation to the STREAM Benchmark ) is also inadequate as a single figure of metric. (It Here I assumed a particular analytical function for the amount of memory traffic as a function of cache size to scale the bandwidth time.

Benchmarking 59

Benchmarking Performance Latency Architecture 59

CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

Google’s industry benchmarks from 2018 also provide a striking breakdown of how each second of loading affects bounce rates. Redirects are often pretty light in terms of the latency that they add to a website, but they are an easy first thing to check, and they can generally be removed with little effort. Text-based assets.

Cache 94

Cache Social Media Media Website 94

The Morning Paper

AUGUST 29, 2019

use the TPC-H benchmark to assess Redshift, Redshift Spectrum, Athena, Presto, Hive, and Vertica to find out what works best and the trade-offs involved. in the TPC-H Benchmark Standard for details of the queries). Query performance is measured from both warm and cold caches. System initialisation time.

Architecture 76

Architecture Cloud Storage Serverless 76

ScaleOut Software

MAY 15, 2014

Likewise, object access paths must be heavily multi-threaded and avoid lock contention to minimize access latency and maximize throughput. During load-balancing, the client gets the following exception when accessing the cache: ErrorCode<ERRCA0017>:SubStatus<ES0006>:There is a temporary failure. Please retry later.

Cache 40

Cache Servers Network Design 40

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

As an engineer on a browser team, I'm privy to the blow-by-blow of various performance projects, benchmark fire drills, and the ways performance marketing (deeply) impacts engineering priorities. With each team, benchmarks lost are understood as bugs. All modern browsers are fast, Chromium and Safari/WebKit included. Offscreen Canvas.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 20, 2023

Here’s some predictions I’m making: Jack Dongarra’s efforts to highlight the low efficiency of the HPCG benchmark as an issue will influence the next generation of supercomputer architectures to optimize for sparse matrix computations. In early January a related paper was published by Satoshi Matsuoka et. petaflops, which is 0.8%

Architecture 52

Architecture Latency Benchmarking AWS 52

Alex Russell

OCTOBER 22, 2017

Budgets are scaled to a benchmark network & device. Deciding what benchmark to use for a performance budget is crucial. It simulates a link with a 400ms RTT and 400-600Kbps of throughput (plus latency variability and simulated packet loss). Performance budgets are set early in the life of the project. Global Ground-Truth.

Performance 74

Performance Network Benchmarking Mobile 74

John McCalpin

APRIL 2, 2020

To show that I can criticize my own work as well, here I show that sustained memory bandwidth (using an approximation to the STREAM Benchmark ) is also inadequate as a single figure of metric. (It Here I assumed a particular analytical function for the amount of memory traffic as a function of cache size to scale the bandwidth time.

Benchmarking 40

Benchmarking Performance Latency Architecture 40

John McCalpin

APRIL 25, 2023

For most high-end processors these values have remained in the range of 75% to 85% of the peak DRAM bandwidth of the system over the past 15-20 years — an amazing accomplishment given the increase in core count (with its associated cache coherence issues), number of DRAM channels, and ever-increasing pipelining of the DRAMs themselves.

Benchmarking 40

Benchmarking Cache Latency Tuning 40

HammerDB

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

This post at an entry-level discusses the options you have to improve log throughput in your benchmark environment. . Additionally for the log disk component it is latency for an individual write that is crucial rather than the total I/O bandwidth. To illustrate the data reads on Oracle we can flush the buffer cache.

Benchmarking 40

Benchmarking Database C++ Virtualization 40

n0derunner

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Creating a HCI benchmark to simulate multi-tennent workloads. In such a case we have a Bandwidth heavy workload profile (reporting) sharing with a Latency Sensitive workload (transactional). The DB Colocation test utilizes two properties of X-Ray not found in other benchmarking tools. Time based benchmark actions.

Performance Testing 40

Performance Testing Benchmarking Testing Performance 40

SQL Performance

APRIL 8, 2019

The L3 cache size is 64MB. I wrote about using CPU-Z to benchmark the Intel Xeon E5-2673 v3 processor in an Azure VM in this article. Figure 1: CPU-Z Benchmark Results for LS16v2. The L3 cache size is 64MB. They feature low latency, local NVMe storage that can directly leverage the 128 PCIe 3.0 Azure Lsv2 Details.

Azure 42

Azure Virtualization Storage Benchmarking 42

The Morning Paper

MAY 14, 2019

Last time around we looked at the DeathStarBench suite of microservices-based benchmark applications and learned that microservices systems can be especially latency sensitive, and that hotspots can propagate through a microservices architecture in interesting ways. on end-to-end latency) and less than 0.15% on throughput.

Big Data 45

Big Data Cloud Performance Hardware 45

Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

This reduction in latency ensures that applications and websites provide a more rapid and responsive user experience. Efficient memory management, including optimizing query caches and buffer pools, can help strike the right balance between memory consumption and query response times.

Tuning 52

Tuning Database Performance Hardware 52

Rigor

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Synthetic monitoring actively allows users to monitor the performance of their website or application with a set of controlled variables (geography, network, device, browser, cached vs. uncached) over time. Benchmark Against Competitors.

Monitoring 40

Monitoring Benchmarking Website Traffic 40

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

Stable media is commonly physical disk storage, but other devices and certain caching facilities qualify as well. Many high-end disk subsystems provide high-speed cache facilities to reduce the latency of read and write operations. This cache is often supported by a battery-powered backup facility.

Servers 40

Servers Cache Media Hardware 40

John McCalpin

OCTOBER 16, 2016

“Memory Bandwidth and System Balance in HPC Systems” If you are planning to attend the SuperComputing 2016 conference in Salt Lake City next month, be sure to reserve a spot on your calendar for my talk on Wednesday afternoon (4:15pm-5:00pm).

Architecture 40

Architecture Systems Technology Technology 40

Scalegrid

JULY 29, 2020

So, we pitted the two connection poolers head-to-head, using the standard pgbench tool, to see which one provides better transactions per second throughput through a benchmark test. All of the PostgreSQL benchmark tests were run under the following conditions: Initialized pgbench using a scale factor of 100. Throughput Benchmark.

Benchmarking 246

Benchmarking Database Performance Testing Availability 246

Randon ASCII

JANUARY 12, 2022

The Xbox 360 CPU had three PowerPC cores and a 1 MB L2 cache and these features are clearly visible on the wafer. In the die picture to the right (which looks to be about 14 mm by 12 mm) you can see the regular pattern of small black rectangles in the bottom right corner – that’s the L2 cache. I wrote a lot of benchmarks.

Cache 126

Cache Latency Benchmarking Hardware 126

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

On your first try, you can use it as a benchmark for optimizations later. Active Memory Caching. When you want to get data that you already had quickly, you need to do caching — caching stores data that a user recently retrieved. Caching partially stores your data and is not used as permanent storage.

Cache 141

Cache Performance Servers Architecture 141

The Morning Paper

MAY 12, 2019

An open-source benchmark suite for microservices and their hardware-software implications for cloud & edge systems Gan et al., A typical architecture diagram for one of these services looks like this: Suitably armed with a set of benchmark microservices applications, the investigation can begin! ASPLOS’19.

Open Source 61

Open Source Hardware Benchmarking Systems 61

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

A then-representative $200USD device had 4-8 slow (in-order, low-cache) cores, ~2GiB of RAM, and relatively slow MLC NAND flash storage. Using a global ASP as a benchmark can further mislead thanks to the distorting effect of ultra-high-end prices rising while shipment volumes stagnate. The Moto G4 , for example.

Performance 127

Performance Network Mobile Metrics 127

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

Time of Last Access The time of last access is a caching ​​ algorithm ​​ that enables ​​ cache ​​ entries to be ordered by their ​​ access times.

Servers 40

Servers Cache Database Media 40

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Build Optimizations JavaScript modules, module/nomodule pattern, tree-shaking, code-splitting, scope-hoisting, Webpack, differential serving, web worker, WebAssembly, JavaScript bundles, React, SPA, partial hydration, import on interaction, 3rd-parties, cache. This improves page load time and caching during navigations.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Estimated Input Latency tells us if we are hitting that threshold, and ideally, it should be below 50ms. Designed for the modern web, it responds to actual congestion, rather than packet loss like TCP does, it is significantly faster , with higher throughput and lower latency — and the algorithm works differently.

Performance 112

Performance Cache Servers Network 112