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The Speed of Time

Brendan Gregg

These strange questions came to the fore back in 2014 when Netflix was switching services from CentOS Linux to Ubuntu, and I helped debug several weird performance issues including one I'll describe here. Colleagues/Internet I love using [Linux performance tools]. How long does it take to read the time? How would you _time_ time?

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The Speed of Time

Brendan Gregg

These strange questions came to the fore back in 2014 when Netflix was switching services from CentOS Linux to Ubuntu, and I helped debug several weird performance issues including one I'll describe here. Colleagues/Internet I love using [Linux performance tools]. How long does it take to read the time? How would you _time_ time?

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