Percona

DECEMBER 20, 2018

We look forward to providing you with even better articles, news and information in 2019. As 2018 moves into 2019, let’s take a quick look back at some of the most popular posts on the blog this year. So I started a couple of instances to test Percona Server for MySQL under this CPU. Top 10 Most Read. on Ubuntu 16.04

Database 40

Database Tuning Performance AWS 40

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 8, 2020

Virtual consensus in Delos , Balakrishnan et al. If you think of this a bit like mapping memory addresses to data in memory, then another parallel comes to mind: the virtual address space. We propose the novel abstraction of a virtual shared log (or VirtualLog). Facebook, Inc. ), OSDI’2020. What does the VirtualLog give us?

Virtualization 126

Virtualization Latency Storage Systems 126

HammerDB

JUNE 27, 2022

HammerDB is a software application for database benchmarking. Databases are highly sophisticated software, and to design and run a fair benchmark workload is a complex undertaking. The Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC) was founded to bring standards to database benchmarking, and the history of the TPC can be found here.

Benchmarking 62

Benchmarking Open Source C++ Cache 62

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

CLI tools The Cassandra systems were EC2 virtual machine (Xen) instances. This server is spending about a third of its CPU cycles just checking the time! Note that Ubuntu also has a frame to show entry into vDSO (virtual dynamic shared object). A quick check of basic performance statistics showed over 30% higher CPU consumption.

Speed 126

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 126

SQL Performance

APRIL 8, 2019

Back on December 5, 2017, Microsoft announced that they were using AMD EPYC 7551 processors in their storage-optimized Lv2-Series virtual machines. These AMD EPYC processors have a number of advantages for SQL Server workloads, as I will explain in this article. Figure 1: CPU-Z Benchmark Results for LS16v2. Azure Lsv2 Details.

Azure 42

Azure Virtualization Storage Benchmarking 42

SQL Performance

AUGUST 27, 2019

On August 7, 2019, AMD finally unveiled their new 7nm EPYC 7002 Series of server processors, formerly code-named "Rome" at the AMD EPYC Horizon Event in San Francisco. This is the second generation EPYC server processor that uses the same Zen 2 architecture as the AMD Ryzen 3000 Series desktop processors.

Servers 52

Servers Benchmarking Virtualization Architecture 52

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

CLI tools The Cassandra systems were EC2 virtual machine (Xen) instances. This server is spending about a third of its CPU cycles just checking the time! Note that Ubuntu also has a frame to show entry into vDSO (virtual dynamic shared object). A quick check of basic performance statistics showed over 30% higher CPU consumption.

Speed 52

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 52