Hardware Operating System Tuning Virtualization 
HammerDB
APRIL 19, 2023
Regardless of whether the computing platform to be evaluated is on-prem, containerized, virtualized, or in the cloud, it is crucial to consider several essential factors. Operating System: Ubuntu 22.04 Storage: The system has a SATA drive for the operating system and one NVMe (Intel SSD D7-P5510 (3.84
Adrian Cockcroft
JUNE 21, 2022
I became the Sun UK local specialist in performance and hardware, and as Sun transitioned from a desktop workstation company to sell high end multiprocessor servers I was helping customers find and fix scalability problems. We had specializations in hardware, operating systems, databases, graphics, etc.
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Dynatrace
JANUARY 26, 2021
Traditional computing models rely on virtual or physical machines, where each instance includes a complete operating system, CPU cycles, and memory. VMware commercialized the idea of virtual machines, and cloud providers embraced the same concept with services like Amazon EC2, Google Compute, and Azure virtual machines.
HammerDB
FEBRUARY 25, 2021
To benchmark a database we introduce the concept of a Virtual User. For this reason we need to implement our database sessions in the form of operating system threads. So having an application client mutex lock that artificially stalls our Virtual Users does not sound good. Basic Benchmarking Concepts. The Python GIL.
Percona
APRIL 17, 2023
In this blog post, we will discuss the best practices on the MongoDB ecosystem applied at the Operating System (OS) and MongoDB levels. The main objective of this post is to share my experience over the past years tuning MongoDB and centralize the diverse sources that I crossed in this journey in a unique place.
HammerDB
JANUARY 5, 2019
As the chart shows because we know that both HammerDB and the implementation of the TPC-C workload scales then we can determine that with this particular database engine both the software and hardware scales as well. If you only test your own application (and if you have more than one application which one will you use for benchmarking?)
SQL Performance
JUNE 21, 2019
Prior to SQL Server 2012, the maximum server memory value only applied to the bufferpool, so customers needed to limit the amount of memory the bufferpool could use to save memory for the operating system and other processes. If you have big physical hardware with defaults, then you should look at optimizing MAXDOP.
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