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

HammerDB

JANUARY 5, 2019

Some opinions claim that “Benchmarks are meaningless”, “benchmarks are irrelevant” or “benchmarks are nothing like your real applications” However for others “Benchmarks matter,” as they “account for the processing architecture and speed, memory, storage subsystems and the database engine.”

Benchmarking 40

Benchmarking Database Social Media Scalability 40

Percona

MARCH 23, 2023

Operating system Linux is the most common operating system for high-performance MySQL servers. Benchmark before you decide. innodb_online_alter_log_max_size (Dynamic) – The upper limit in bytes on the size of the temporary log files used during online DDL operations for InnoDB tables.

Performance 144

Performance Hardware Tuning Storage 144

HammerDB

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

HammerDB is a load testing and benchmarking application for relational databases. On high-performance multi-core systems all the supported databases can return performance in the many millions of transactions per minute. Basic Benchmarking Concepts. To benchmark a database we introduce the concept of a Virtual User.

Programming 68

Programming Benchmarking Virtualization C++ 68

Percona

AUGUST 30, 2018

Let’s examine the TPC-C Benchmark from this point of view, or more specifically its implementation in Sysbench. The illustrations below are taken from Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) while running this benchmark. Let’s now look at the operating system level. Analyzing read/write workload by counts.

Benchmarking 72

Benchmarking Database Operating System Architecture 72

MachMetrics

DECEMBER 14, 2019

However, we really want to strive to be under the benchmarks that Google sets as a best practice. There are many resources you can use for this, and it may even be best to use a combination of them: WebPageTest : The industry standard for measuring site performance – results are collected from real browsers running common operating systems.

Best Practices 105

Best Practices Speed Mobile Google 105

Percona

AUGUST 31, 2018

The PostgreSQL buffer is called shared_buffer which is the most effective tunable parameter for most operating systems. It’s low because certain machines and operating systems do not support higher values. Plus another recent post on benchmarks: Tuning PostgreSQL for sysbench-tpcc. wal_buffers. Related posts.

Tuning 79

Tuning Database Performance Benchmarking 79

John McCalpin

APRIL 2, 2020

All of the SPECfp_rate2000 results were downloaded from www.spec.org, the results were sorted by processor type, and “peak floating-point operations per cycle” was manually added for each processor type. This includes all architectures, all compilers, all operating systems, and all system configurations.

Benchmarking 59

Benchmarking Performance Latency Architecture 59

HammerDB

JUNE 27, 2022

HammerDB is a software application for database benchmarking. HammerDB has graphical and command line interfaces for the Windows and Linux operating systems. Databases are highly sophisticated software, and to design and run a fair benchmark workload is a complex undertaking. Why HammerDB was developed. The NOPM Metric.

Benchmarking 63

Benchmarking Open Source C++ Cache 63

HammerDB

APRIL 27, 2021

This will show the benchmark options dialog. Benchmark Options. and benchmark set with the bm argument. HammerDB ins multithreaded and the Virtual Users run independently as operating system threads. These commands can be interspersed with other operating system or database commands at the shell level.

Virtualization 74

Virtualization Benchmarking Database Operating System 74

HammerDB

APRIL 19, 2023

GHz 4th Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors (code-named Sapphire Rapids) Up to 20% higher compute performance than z1d instances Up to 50 Gbps of networking speed Up to 40 Gbps of bandwidth to the Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) We can also verify these capabilities by running some simple benchmarks on the different subsystems.

Performance 55

Performance Benchmarking Cache Storage 55

Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

Such solutions also incorporate features like disaster recovery and built-in safeguards that ensure data integrity across diverse operating systems. Additionally, the platform continuously monitors data through benchmarking functionalities providing valuable insights through its data analytics tools.

Cloud 130

Cloud Virtualization Storage Efficiency 130

SQL Performance

DECEMBER 17, 2019

You will still have to maintain your operating system, SQL Server and databases just like you would in an on-premises scenario. Microsoft's Mine Tokus has a good article where she ran a series of scaled down TPC-E benchmarks against an E64s_v3 VM that was using the older Broadwell processor.

Azure 72

Azure Virtualization Servers Storage 72

The Morning Paper

MAY 23, 2019

Looking across a set of eight Java benchmarks, we find that only two of them are array dominated, the rest having between 40% to 75% of the heap footprint allocated to objects, the vast majority of which are small. Consider a B-Tree node from the B-tree Java benchmark: Uncompressed, it’s memory layout looks like (a) below. Evaluation.

Cache 61

Cache Benchmarking Hardware Java 61

Testsigma

JANUARY 12, 2021

This list guides you on the areas to test, the browsers, versions, operating systems to consider, the benchmarks to meet, as well as time and budget allocation. You need a variety of devices to track and audit the application behavior when browsers are running on different operating systems. Infrastructure.

Website 65

Website Operating System Benchmarking Testing Tools 65

John McCalpin

APRIL 2, 2020

All of the SPECfp_rate2000 results were downloaded from www.spec.org, the results were sorted by processor type, and “peak floating-point operations per cycle” was manually added for each processor type. This includes all architectures, all compilers, all operating systems, and all system configurations.

Benchmarking 40

Benchmarking Performance Latency Architecture 40

John McCalpin

APRIL 25, 2023

This metric is interesting because we don’t always have the luxury of parallelizing every application we run, and our operating systems almost always process each call (e.g., GHz, 1530 GB/s peak BW from 6 HBM stacks), I see single-thread sustained memory bandwidth of 304 GB/s on the ReadOnly benchmark used here.

Benchmarking 40

Benchmarking Cache Latency Tuning 40

Tim Kadlec

JUNE 26, 2008

Firefox 3 Memory Benchmarks and Comparison. The memory tests are computed by a custom built.NET application, and provide a good look at how these browsers compare in memory management on the Windows operating system. There was a nice article at Sitepoint about Test Driven Development. With both Firefox 3 and Opera 9.5

Benchmarking 40

Benchmarking Operating System Testing Technology 40

The Morning Paper

MAY 27, 2019

Microbenchmarks (MiBench) and the FreeBSD system call timing benchmarks show modest performance impact in some cases, and performance improvements in others (3.4% faster for system calls). For a macro-benchmark PostgreSQL’s initdb tool was used. slower to 9.8% PostgreSQL runs 6.8% slower as a CheriABI binary.

C++ 61

C++ Hardware Virtualization Benchmarking 61

Alex Russell

MARCH 9, 2024

Distinguishing Traits # Shipped to many OSes Tiny platform teams (<20 people or <10% of the total team) Little benchmark interest or focus No platform feature leadership No standards footprint Platform feature availability lags the underlying engine (e.g., native, OS-specific) platform and the hopefully weaker web platform.

Benchmarking 60

Benchmarking Strategy Internet Internet 60

Percona

MAY 1, 2023

PostgreSQL performance optimization is an ongoing process involving monitoring, benchmarking, and adjustments to maintain high-performing PostgreSQL databases. The PostgreSQL buffer is called shared_buffer, which is the most effective tunable parameter for most operating systems. Why is PostgreSQL performance tuning important?

Tuning 52

Tuning Database Efficiency Performance 52

Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 20, 2023

on Myths and Legends of High Performance Computing  — it’s a somewhat light-hearted look at some of the same issues by the leader of the team that built the Fugaku system I mention below. HPCG is led by Japan’s RIKEN Fugaku system at 16 petaflops, which is 3% of it’s peak capacity. petaflops, which is 0.8% of peak capacity.

Architecture 52

Architecture Latency Benchmarking AWS 52

Testsigma

MARCH 23, 2021

We don’t even need a moment to gather which operating system is the most used one. Unlike iOS development, Android development requires proper standards and varying benchmarks for performance and optimization. Android development is a booming business because of the number of users it has.

Testing 52

Testing Mobile Testing Tools Strategy 52

Apica

APRIL 11, 2023

RPA Features to Look For While your systems utilize various operating systems, you probably use Windows to interface with most. Windows compatibility is the most useful requirement in RPA functionality, as that gives you access to a wide variety of other systems.

IoT 40

IoT Benchmarking Scalability Network 40

PDC

APRIL 14, 2019

It ranks the world’s 500 most powerful supercomputers based on their performance as measured by the Linpack benchmark. The Top500 list website also provides list statistics for different categories like processor generations, geographical regions, operating systems, and so on. You may have heard of the Top500 list.

Energy 40

Energy Benchmarking Efficiency Website 40

HammerDB

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

This article Threads Done Right… With Tcl gives an excellent overview of these capabilities and it should be clear that to build a scalable benchmarking tool this thread performance and scalability is key. Virtual Users within HammerDB are operating system threads. Virtual Users.

Architecture 40

Architecture Virtualization Open Source C++ 40

SQL Server According to Bob

AUGUST 23, 2021

MANUAL affinity provides the best, top end performance​​ (for benchmarks by utilizing L1 caches)​​ but is susceptible to noisy, CPU neighbors. Allowing the Operating System ​​ to schedule the worker on alternate CPUs can eliminate the impact of a noisy neighbor.

Servers 40

Servers Azure Operating System Database 40

Percona

JULY 1, 2023

For RDS products, shell access to the underlying operating system is disabled, and access to MySQL user accounts with the “SUPER” privilege isn’t allowed. To configure MySQL variables or manage users, Amazon RDS provides specific parameter groups, APIs, and other special system procedures which are used.

AWS 52

AWS Database Serverless Storage 52

Randon ASCII

APRIL 17, 2018

When you own all of the code then this may involve some back of the envelope estimates, competitive benchmarking, or intuition tuned by experience. When dealing with a closed box like Microsoft’s NTFS file system it’s trickier to know if things could be running faster than they are.

Monitoring 43

Monitoring C++ Code Processing 43

ScaleOut Software

MAY 15, 2014

Well, performance comparisons aren’t so easy since the AppFabric license agreement states: “You may not disclose the results of any benchmark tests of the software to any third party without Microsoft’s prior written approval.” Testing Scale-Up Performance.

Cache 40

Cache Servers Network Design 40

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

SQL Server always checks I/O completion status for any operating system error conditions and proper data transfer size and then handles errors appropriately. Torn pages generally arise after system outages where the subsystem does not complete the entire 8-KB I/O request. This utility is located on the Microsoft Web site.

Servers 40

Servers Cache Media Hardware 40

Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

Another big jump, but now it was my job to run benchmarks in the lab, and write white papers that explained the new products to the world, as they were launched. I was mostly coding in C, tuning FORTRAN, and when I needed to do a lot of data analysis of benchmark results used the S-PLUS statistics language, that is the predecessor to R.

Tuning 52

Tuning Benchmarking Engineering C++ 52

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

Subsystem / Path The ​​ I/O subsystem or path ​​ includes ​​ those ​​ components ​​ that are ​​ used to support an I/O operation. ​​ Also, it ​​ is ​​ generally impractical on a production system.

Servers 40

Servers Cache Database Media 40

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 2, 2021

Today, the website is much faster and ranks highly in various showcases and benchmarks. It was a multi-month journey full of difficult decisions, with a lot of discussions about which optimizations were worth pursuing. In this article, I’ll highlight some of the work we did and how we were able to achieve our speed. Large preview ).

Performance 132

Performance Cache Website Mobile 132

HammerDB

DECEMBER 10, 2024

tpmC tpmC is the transactions per minute metric that is the measurement of the official TPC-C benchmark from the TPC-Council. Without exception, TPC-C and tpmC can only be used for official audited TPC-C benchmarks published here by the TPC-Council. Why this would be the case is straightforward.

C++ 58

C++ Benchmarking Hardware Performance 58

High Scalability

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

What operating systems do you use? More details on this are in this blog post Debugging Performance Issues in Distributed Systems. The dedicated Security team runs automated security benchmark tests before every release. Which web server do you use? Nginx, HAproxy. Which database do you use? MySQL and Redis.

Architecture 52

Architecture Cache Azure Storage 52