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The Return of the Frame Pointers

Brendan Gregg

2005-2023: The winter of broken profilers However, the change was then applied to x86-64 (64-bit) as well, which had sixteen registers and didn't benefit so much from a seventeenth. Enterprise environments are monitored, continuously profiled, and analyzed on a regular basis, so this capability will indeed be put to use.

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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.". Waits data is surfaced by many SQL Server performance monitoring solutions, and I've been an advocate of tuning using this methodology since the beginning.

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SQL Server I/O Basics Chapter #2

SQL Server According to Bob

As ​​ the ​​ administrator of a SQL Server 2005 installation, ​​ you will find that ​​ visibility into ​​ the ​​ SQL Server ​​ I/O ​​ subsystem ​​ has been ​​ significantly increased.

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SQL Server On Linux: Forced Unit Access (Fua) Internals

SQL Server According to Bob

CSA ISO/IEC 9945-1:2005 (R2009) 3.375 Synchronized I/O Data Integrity Completion. Refer to the ISO documentation on file integrity for complete details: CSA ISO/IEC 9945-1:2005 (R2009) 3.376 Synchronized I/O File Integrity Completion. Linux may need similar utilities to control various hardware cache installations. Device Flush.

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Linux Load Averages: Solving the Mystery

Brendan Gregg

The version of this on [ietf.org] links to a PDF scan of a hand drawn load average graph from July 1973, showing that this has been monitored for decades: source: [link]. The oldest change in the entire Linux repo dates back to 2005, when Linus imported Linux 2.6.12-rc2, not blocked for I/O) waiting for the CPU. Yes, I'd say so.

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