Percona

JANUARY 5, 2023

Space constraint has been an endless and painstaking process for many of us, especially in systems that have a high number of transactions and data growth exceeding hundreds of GBs in a matter of days. MySQL won’t shrink tablespace and storage won’t be released to the file system. What is partitioning? ibd -rw-r --.

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 18, 2012

In Proceedings of the Eighteenth Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP-18), Banff, Canada, October, 2001. Aug 24 - The Five-Minute Rule Ten Years Later, and Other Computer Storage Rules of Thumb , Jim Gray and Goetz Graefe, ACM SIGMOD Record 26 (4): 63â?? Traiger, Modeling in Data Base Management Systems, G.M. Nijssen ed.,

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Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

I made major contributions to two Sun Blueprints books on Resource Management (1999) with Richard McDougall, Evert Hoogendoorn, Enrique Vargas, and Jim Bialaski, and Capacity Planning for Internet Services (2001) with Bill Walker. I’d helped eBay recover from capacity related outages in 1999 and had setup their capacity planning processes.

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ACM Sigarch

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

The best paper runner-up was “ Dynamic Multi-Resolution Data Storage ”. . Two Test of Time awards went to: “Speculative Lock Elision: Enabling Highly Concurrent Multithreaded Execution” published at MICRO 2001 by Ravi Rajwar and James R.

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Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

There's also a ZFS send/recv code path that should try to use the TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE flag (as suggested by a coworker), to avoid a kernel hang (can't kill -9 the process). On Linux, containers are a combination of namespaces (restricting what a process sees) and cgroups (similar to Solaris resource controls).

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