Sat.Mar 16, 2024

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The Return of the Frame Pointers

Brendan Gregg

Sometimes debuggers and profilers are obivously broken, sometimes it's subtle and hard to spot. From my flame graphs page: CPU flame graph (partly broken) (Click for original SVG.) This is pretty common and usually goes unnoticed as the flame graph looks ok at first glance. But there are 15% of samples on the left, above "[unknown]", that are in the wrong place and missing frames.

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Presentation: The Journey to a Million Ops / Sec / Node in Venice

InfoQ

Alex Dubrouski, Gaojie Liu discuss some of the tricks used in their pursuit to lower read latency and to reach 1M operations per second per node.

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