Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

A Cassandra database cluster had switched to Ubuntu and noticed write latency increased by over 30%. Was there some other program consuming CPU, like a misbehaving Ubuntu service that wasn't in CentOS? I've shared many posts about superpower observability tools, but often humble hacking is just as effective. include <sys/time.h>

Speed 103

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 103

Scalegrid

MARCH 28, 2024

Benchmarking Cache Speed Memcached is optimized for high read and write loads, making it highly efficient for rapid data access in a basic key-value store. Redis’s support for pipelining in a Redis server can significantly reduce network latency by batching command executions, making it beneficial for write-heavy applications.

Cache 130

Cache Storage Scalability Architecture 130

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

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. Provides support for "unread counts", e.g. for email and chat programs.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

The fundamental principles at play include evenly distributing the workload among servers for better application performance and redirecting client requests to nearby servers to reduce latency. Computer workload refers to the combination of computing power, memory, storage, and network resources required to complete a task or run a program.

Cloud 130

Cloud Virtualization Storage Efficiency 130

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

A Cassandra database cluster had switched to Ubuntu and noticed write latency increased by over 30%. Was there some other program consuming CPU, like a misbehaving Ubuntu service that wasn't in CentOS? I've shared many posts about superpower observability tools, but often humble hacking is just as effective.

Speed 52

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 52

SQL Performance

APRIL 8, 2019

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. They feature low latency, local NVMe storage that can directly leverage the 128 PCIe 3.0 GHz Intel Xeon E5-2673 v4 (Broadwell) and the 2.4 Figure 2: Microsoft Project Olympus.

Azure 42

Azure Virtualization Storage Benchmarking 42

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

A Cassandra database cluster had switched to Ubuntu and noticed write latency increased by over 30%. Was there some other program consuming CPU, like a misbehaving Ubuntu service that wasn't in CentOS? I've shared many posts about superpower observability tools, but often humble hacking is just as effective. include <sys/time.h>

Speed 40

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 40

Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

If you or your company are able to generate a credible worldwide latency estimate in the higher percentiles for next year's update, please get in touch. Front-end developers are cursed to program the Devil's computer. But it won't be based on the sort of numbers that folks explicitly running speed tests see; those aren't real life.

Performance 98

Performance Network Mobile Speed 98

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

Many high-end disk subsystems provide high-speed cache facilities to reduce the latency of read and write operations. Dirty Page Latency ​​ – A page is considered dirty when data modifications have taken place. This cache is often supported by a battery-powered backup facility.

Servers 40

Servers Cache Media Hardware 40

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

John McCalpin

JANUARY 22, 2018

Each of the two vector units can issue one FMA instruction per cycle, assuming that there are enough independent accumulators to tolerate the 6-cycle dependent-operation latency. Using the minimum number of accumulator registers needed to tolerate the pipeline latency (12), the assembly code for the inner loop is: B1.8:

Latency 40

Latency Hardware Code Testing 40

John McCalpin

JANUARY 22, 2018

Each of the two vector units can issue one FMA instruction per cycle, assuming that there are enough independent accumulators to tolerate the 6-cycle dependent-operation latency. Using the minimum number of accumulator registers needed to tolerate the pipeline latency (12), the assembly code for the inner loop is: B1.8:

Latency 40

Latency Hardware Code Testing 40

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

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.

Servers 40

Servers Cache Database Media 40

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Using this approach, we observed latencies ranging from 1 to 10 seconds, averaging 7.4 This file was introduced in this commit in 2017, with the purpose of improving the performance of user programs that determine aggregate memory statistics. The input to stdin is sent to the backend (i.e., We then exported the .har

Latency 214

Latency Virtualization Traffic Processing 214