The Morning Paper

DECEMBER 8, 2019

Byte-addressable non-volatile memory,) NVM will fundamentally change the way hardware interacts, the way operating systems are designed, and the way applications operate on data. Traditional pointers address a memory location (often virtual of course). At least, the nature of pointers that we want to make persistent.

Hardware 56

Hardware Programming Media Storage 56

Brendan Gregg

AUGUST 8, 2017

They are demand on the system, albeit for software resources rather than hardware resources. ## Decomposing Linux load averages Can the Linux load average value be fully decomposed into components? Yes, I'd say so. Those threads are in the middle of doing work, and happen to block on a lock. They aren't idle. 3 tar termb$ iostat -x 60. [.]

Latency 111

Latency Metrics C++ Systems 111

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Linux has been adding tracing technologies over the years: kprobes (kernel dynamic tracing), uprobes (user-level dynamic tracing), tracepoints (static tracing), and perf_events (profiling and hardware counters). What happens if processes really do try to populate all that virtual memory?

Virtualization 75

Virtualization AWS Engineering Hardware 75

SQL Performance

AUGUST 27, 2019

It will also use less power than a two-socket Intel server, with a lower hardware cost, and potentially lower licensing costs (for things like VMware). For comparison's sake, Lenovo has an earlier submission of an official TPC-E result for a two-socket, Lenovo ThinkSystem SR650 2U server that has a TPC-E Throughput score of 7012.53.

Servers 52

Servers Benchmarking Virtualization Architecture 52

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Operating systems have often three layers, more or less coupled with each other: The kernel , which directly dabbles with the hardware of your computer; The shell , an interface for you, or some applications, to interact with the kernel; A display layer on top, like a desktop manager or a tiling windows manager. But first, a bit of theory.

Development 117

Development Energy Programming Systems 117

HammerDB

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Stored Procedures and Client SQL comparison To test the stored procedures and client implementations, we ran both workloads against a system equipped with Intel Xeon 8280L. The data shows a scripted automated workload running a number of back to back tests each time with an increasing number of virtual users. On MySQL, we saw a 1.5X

Benchmarking 63

Benchmarking Database Network C++ 63

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

CLI tools The Cassandra systems were EC2 virtual machine (Xen) instances. As a Xen guest, this profile was gathered using perf(1) and the kernel's software cpu-clock soft interrupts, not the hardware NMI. Note that Ubuntu also has a frame to show entry into vDSO (virtual dynamic shared object). us on Centos and 0.68

Speed 52

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 52

HammerDB

OCTOBER 12, 2018

As is also the case this limitation is at the database level (especially the storage engine) rather than the hardware level. Finally it is also important to note that this comparison is focused around OLTP based workloads, HammerDB also supports a TPC-H based workload for analytics with complex ad-hoc queries.

Best Practices 40

Best Practices Scalability Performance C++ 40

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

CLI tools The Cassandra systems were EC2 virtual machine (Xen) instances. As a Xen guest, this profile was gathered using perf(1) and the kernel's software cpu-clock soft interrupts, not the hardware NMI. Note that Ubuntu also has a frame to show entry into vDSO (virtual dynamic shared object). But I'm not completely sure.

Speed 40

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 40

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

ReadFile WriteFile ReadFileScatter WriteFileGather GetOverlappedResult ​​ For extended details on the 823 error, see ​​ Error message 823 may indicate hardware problems or system problems ​​ ( [link] i crosoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb ​​ Contact your hardware manufacture for assistance.

Servers 40

Servers Cache Database Media 40

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Alternatively, you can also use: Addy Osmani’s Chrome UX Report Compare Tool , Speed Scorecard (also provides a revenue impact estimator), Real User Experience Test Comparison or SiteSpeed CI (based on synthetic testing). Note that new CrUX datasets are released on the second Tuesday of each month.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145