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What Adrian Did Next?—?Part 2?—?Sun Microsystems

Adrian Cockcroft

I was mostly coding in C, tuning FORTRAN, and when I needed to do a lot of data analysis of benchmark results used the S-PLUS statistics language, that is the predecessor to R. The SE toolkit was fast, had no memory leaks (monitoring scripts could run for years) and let me implement lots of cool performance monitoring ideas.

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HammerDB v4.2 New Features Pt1: MariaDB Build and Test Example with the CLI

HammerDB

Copyright (C) 2003-2021 Steve Shaw Type "help" for a list of commands The xml is well-formed, applying configuration hammerdb>librarycheck. As noted previously, we’ve added a my.cnf file to the MariaDB directory and tuned this for performance rather than resilience. . /hammerdbcli HammerDB CLI v4.2

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Web Performance Bookshelf

Rigor

These are the bestsellers in the web performance field, including the good old Speed Up Your Site (2003) by Andy King; Steve Souders’ Even Faster Web Sites (2009) ; Ilya Grigorik’s High Performance Browser Networking (2013) ; Tammy Everts’ Time is Money (2016) ; and a handful of more recent publications.

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Testing MySQL 8.0.16 on Skylake with innodb_spin_wait_pause_multiplier

HammerDB

However as noted many factors affect spin-locks including how much time you actually spend in locks in the first place and therefore the best way to really determine how much time you have to spend in fine-tuning spin-locks in the real world can be done through testing. Copyright (C) 2003-2018 Steve Shaw. In the recent MySQL 8.0.16

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Why Waits Alone Are Not Enough

SQL Performance

The queues component of our methodology comes from Performance Monitor counters, which provide a view of system performance from a resource standpoint.". Tom Davidson, Opening Microsoft's Performance-Tuning Toolbox SQL Server Pro Magazine, December 2003. The Top Queries That Weren't.

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HammerDB MySQL and MariaDB Best Practice for Performance and Scalability

HammerDB

monitoring. monitoring. Copyright (C) 2003-2018 Steve Shaw. Copyright (C) 2003-2018 Steve Shaw. innodb_file_per_table. innodb_log_file_size=1024M. innodb_log_files_in_group=32. innodb_open_files=4000. innodb_buffer_pool_size=64000M. innodb_buffer_pool_instances=16. innodb_log_buffer_size=64M. innodb_doublewrite=0.

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SQL Server I/O Basics Chapter #2

SQL Server According to Bob

​​ However, the ​​ algorithm ​​ has been ​​ tuned ​​ and the resulting ​​ affect ​​ is ​​ minimal. ​​ Checksum ​​ is ​​ the default database setting in SQL Server 2005.

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