Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

A Cassandra database cluster had switched to Ubuntu and noticed write latency increased by over 30%. Measuring the speed of time Is there already a microbenchmark for os::javaTimeMillis()? I've shared many posts about superpower observability tools, but often humble hacking is just as effective. Try changing the kernel clocksource.

Speed 103

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 103

Randon ASCII

JANUARY 12, 2022

Back in the day I wrote a lot of benchmarks in order to look for places where the actual performance of the CPU didn’t match what we expected. I wrote a lot of benchmarks. One benchmark I wrote measured the L2 cache latency. Finally, the Xbox 360 was designed to run at a higher clock speed, but then shipped at 3.2

Cache 126

Cache Latency Benchmarking Hardware 126

Percona

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Leveraging pgbench , which is a benchmarking utility that comes bundled with PostgreSQL, I will put the cluster through its paces by executing a series of DML operations. And now, execute the benchmark: -- execute the following on the coordinator node pgbench -c 20 -j 3 -T 60 -P 3 pgbench The results are not pretty.

Database 114

Database Benchmarking Latency C++ 114

Scalegrid

JANUARY 25, 2024

Key Takeaways Critical performance indicators such as latency, CPU usage, memory utilization, hit rate, and number of connected clients/slaves/evictions must be monitored to maintain Redis’s high throughput and low latency capabilities. It can achieve impressive performance, handling up to 50 million operations per second.

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HammerDB

OCTOBER 18, 2019

HammerDB doesn’t publish competitive database benchmarks, instead we always encourage people to be better informed by running their own. So over at Phoronix some database benchmarks were published showing PostgreSQL 12 Performance With AMD EPYC 7742 vs. Intel Xeon Platinum 8280 Benchmarks .

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Benchmarking Performance Hardware C++ 63

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

Scalegrid

MARCH 28, 2024

Introduction Caching serves a dual purpose in web development – speeding up client requests and reducing server load. 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.

Cache 130

Cache Storage Architecture Scalability 130

Particular Software

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Sometimes developers only care about speed. Some will claim that any type of RPC communication ends up being faster (meaning it has lower latency) than any equivalent invocation using asynchronous messaging. There are more steps, so the increased latency is easily explained. But the answer isn’t that simple.

Benchmarking 97

Benchmarking Latency Servers Systems 97

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

A Cassandra database cluster had switched to Ubuntu and noticed write latency increased by over 30%. Measuring the speed of time Is there already a microbenchmark for os::javaTimeMillis()? I've shared many posts about superpower observability tools, but often humble hacking is just as effective. Try changing the kernel clocksource.

Speed 52

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 52

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

Query performance Query performance is a key performance indicator (KPI) in MySQL, as it measures the efficiency and speed of query execution. Replication lag can occur due to various factors such as network latency, system resource limitations, complex transactions, or heavy write loads on the primary/master database.

Performance 136

Performance Monitoring Traffic Database 136

Speed Curve

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

Why speed matters, examples of the impact saving a few seconds of load time has had on revenue and engagement. Bandwidth, latency and it's fundamental impact on the speed of the web. An overview of tools for measuring performance, uptime monitoring, real user monitoring and performance benchmarking. Performance Tools.

Speed 40

Speed Benchmarking Mobile Website 40

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 Building separate models for each of the benchmarks was required to get the correct asymptotic properties.

Benchmarking 59

Benchmarking Performance Latency Architecture 59

Percona

MARCH 23, 2023

Nowadays, solid-state drives (SSDs) or non-volatile memory express (NVMe) drives are preferred over traditional hard disk drives (HDDs) for database servers due to their faster read and write speeds, lower latency, and improved reliability. Benchmark before you decide. Transparent huge pages (THP) disabled.

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Performance Hardware Tuning Storage 144

Percona

JANUARY 24, 2023

There will be a considerable gain if we combine this with other sets of great improvements in WAL archiving in PostgreSQL 15, as discussed in previous posts New WAL Archive Module/Library in PostgreSQL 15 and Speed Up of the WAL Archiving in PostgreSQL 15. But this comes with a considerable performance implication.

Database 142

Database Benchmarking Open Source Latency 142

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

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. Recall that single-core performance most directly translates into speed on the web. Today, either method returns a similar answer. Tap for a larger version. How bad is it?

Performance 127

Performance Network Mobile Metrics 127

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

A Cassandra database cluster had switched to Ubuntu and noticed write latency increased by over 30%. Measuring the speed of time Is there already a microbenchmark for os::javaTimeMillis()? I've shared many posts about superpower observability tools, but often humble hacking is just as effective. Try changing the kernel clocksource.

Speed 40

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 40

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 Benchmarking Retail 64

Speed Curve

MAY 1, 2023

If you've invested countless hours in speeding up your pages, but you're not using performance budgets to prevent regressions, you could be at risk of wasting all your efforts. INP logs the latency of all interactions throughout the entire page lifecycle. It's easier to make a fast website than it is to keep a website fast.

Performance 98

Performance Metrics Media Google 98

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

Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

Memory Allocation: Allocating sufficient memory linked directly to the assigned CPU ensures effective utilization resulting in better system speed. 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.

Cloud 130

Cloud Virtualization Storage Efficiency 130

Alex Russell

MAY 9, 2022

This is a complex topic, but to borrow from a recent post , web performance expands access to information and services by reducing latency and variance across interactions in a session, with a particular focus on the tail of the distribution (P75+). Consistent performance matters just as much as low average latency.

Performance 99

Performance Latency Metrics Engineering 99

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. Speed is also something Google considers when ranking your website placement on mobile. Speed is also something Google considers when ranking your website placement on mobile.

Cache 94

Cache Social Media Media Website 94

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 Building separate models for each of the benchmarks was required to get the correct asymptotic properties.

Benchmarking 40

Benchmarking Performance Latency Architecture 40

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

On your first try, you can use it as a benchmark for optimizations later. Server caches help lower the latency between a Frontend and Backend; since key-value databases are faster than traditional relational SQL databases, it will significantly increase an API’s response time. No one likes a white blank screen, especially your users.

Cache 141

Cache Performance Servers Architecture 141

Tim Kadlec

APRIL 18, 2019

Even if it is 4G (5G, or whatever else) that doesn’t exactly guarantee you’ll be getting the amazing, theoretical speeds promised. Once a new network does get rolled out, it takes years for carriers to optimize it to try and close in on the promised bandwidth and latency benchmarks.

Network 61

Network Speed Internet Internet 61

Alex Russell

OCTOBER 22, 2017

Budgets are scaled to a benchmark network & device. JavaScript is the single most expensive part of any page in ways that are a function of both network capacity and device speed. Deciding what benchmark to use for a performance budget is crucial. Performance budgets are set early in the life of the project.

Performance 74

Performance Network Benchmarking Mobile 74

Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

HTML, CSS, images, and fonts can all be parsed and run at near wire speeds on low-end hardware, but JavaScript is at least three times more expensive, byte-for-byte. India's speed test medians are moving quickly, but variance is orders-of-magnitude wide, with 5G penetration below 25% in the most populous areas.

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Performance Network Mobile Speed 98

VoltDB

JUNE 1, 2017

In addition, such custom systems could only be benchmarked once they were deployed, so by the time multiple layers of management had each added a 50% safety margin to the initial SWAG , it was not unusual to see them running at 10% of capacity (but 150% of the lucky hardware salesman’s annual quota).

Hardware 56

Hardware Latency Virtualization Cloud 56

SQL Performance

APRIL 8, 2019

This processor has a base clock speed of 2.0GHz, with an all-core boost speed of 2.55GHz, and a max boost clock speed of 3.0GHz. 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.

Azure 42

Azure Virtualization Storage Benchmarking 42

KeyCDN

AUGUST 15, 2019

Before you begin tuning your website or application, you must first figure out which metrics matter most to your users and establish some achievable benchmarks. When the word “performance” is heard, most people immediately think of speed. What is Performance Testing? Peak response time: The longest response time.

Testing Tools 55

Testing Tools Best Practices Performance Testing Testing 55

SQL Server According to Bob

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Performance issues surrounding Availability Groups typically were related to disk I/O or network speeds. Our customers who deployed Availability Groups were now using servers for primary and secondary replicas with 12+ core sockets and flash storage SSD arrays providing microsecond to low millisecond latencies. one without a replica).

Availability 40

Availability Servers Hardware Benchmarking 40

VoltDB

JUNE 1, 2017

In addition, such custom systems could only be benchmarked once they were deployed, so by the time multiple layers of management had each added a 50% safety margin to the initial SWAG , it was not unusual to see them running at 10% of capacity (but 150% of the lucky hardware salesman’s annual quota).

Hardware 40

Hardware Latency Virtualization Cloud 40

Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

This reduction in latency ensures that applications and websites provide a more rapid and responsive user experience. Enhanced User Experience Whether you operate an e-commerce platform, a content management system, or any other application reliant on MySQL, users will notice and appreciate the improved speed and responsiveness.

Tuning 52

Tuning Database Performance Hardware 52

Rigor

OCTOBER 30, 2019

The Lighthouse Performance score is based on some of the most important performance metrics : First Contentful Paint, First Meaningful Paint, Speed Index, Time to Interactive, First CPU Idle, and Estimated Input Latency. When it comes to network speed, Lighthouse gives you three options – and no others.

Google 51

Google Best Practices Energy Website 51

HammerDB

OCTOBER 12, 2018

For anyone benchmarking MySQL with HammerDB it is important to understand the differences from sysbench workloads as HammerDB is targeted at a testing a different usage model from sysbench. maximum transition latency: Cannot determine or is not supported. . HammerDB difference from Sysbench. hardware limits: 1000 MHz - 3.80

Best Practices 40

Best Practices Scalability Performance C++ 40

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. This allows the checkpoint process to maintain its speed while the random nature of the I/O requests deters any elevator seeking that could ​​ affect ​​ other I/O operations.

Servers 40

Servers Cache Media Hardware 40

KeyCDN

JUNE 20, 2019

eCommerce Conversion Rate Benchmarks First off, we’ll start with some benchmarks. The lower conversion rate on mobile could be due to a variety of reasons including the website not being responsive for mobile devices, the speed isn’t up to par, etc. Improve Site Speed In 2019, having fast site speed is imperative.

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Ecommerce Speed Mobile Website 41