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The Return of the Frame Pointers

Brendan Gregg

I'm sure this delivered large performance improvements and I wouldn't try arguing against it. As my former Sun Microsystems colleague Eric Schrock (nickname Schrock) wrote in November 2004 : "On i386, you at least had the advantage of increasing the number of usable registers by 20%.

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5.5 mm in 1.25 nanoseconds

Randon ASCII

In 2004 I was working for Microsoft in the Xbox group, and a new console was being created. The Xbox 360 CPU had three PowerPC cores and a 1 MB L2 cache and these features are clearly visible on the wafer. I used to know what the visible elements of the CPU cores were (L1 caches? To the left of that is one of the CPU cores.

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Best Free DNS Hosting Providers

KeyCDN

This query is performed by a Domain Name Server (DNS server) or servers nearby that have been assigned responsibility for that hostname. ISPs do cache DNS however which means if your first provider goes down it will still try to query the first DNS server for a period of time before querying for the second one.

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File systems unfit as distributed storage backends: lessons from ten years of Ceph evolution

The Morning Paper

Breaking that assumption allowed Ceph to introduce a new storage backend called BlueStore with much better performance and predictability, and the ability to support the changing storage hardware landscape. 2004) was a user-space file system called the Extent and B-Tree based object file system. S3), RADOS block device (cf.

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KeyCDN Launches POP in Helsinki

KeyCDN

The use of online bank services, online shopping, and travel service browsing have increased significantly since spring 2004. If you are experiencing any issues with the new POP in Helsinki, check our status page to verify if we are performing any scheduled maintenance or open a support request with us directly. What’s Next?

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SQL Server I/O Basics Chapter #1

SQL Server According to Bob

Microsoft SQL Server I/O Basics Author: ​​ Bob Dorr, Microsoft SQL Server Escalation Published: ​​ December, 2004 SUMMARY: ​​ Learn the I/O requirements for Microsoft SQL Server database file operations. This will help you increase system performance and avoid I/O environment errors.

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SQL Server I/O Basics Chapter #2

SQL Server According to Bob

Time of Last Access The time of last access is a caching ​​ algorithm ​​ that enables ​​ cache ​​ entries to be ordered by their ​​ access times.

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