Brendan Gregg

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Hardware virtualization for cloud computing has come a long way, improving performance using technologies such as VT-x, SR-IOV, VT-d, NVMe, and APICv. The latest AWS hypervisor, Nitro, uses everything to provide a new hardware-assisted hypervisor that is easy to use and has near bare-metal performance. I'd expect between 0.1%

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Brendan Gregg

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Hardware virtualization for cloud computing has come a long way, improving performance using technologies such as VT-x, SR-IOV, VT-d, NVMe, and APICv. The latest AWS hypervisor, Nitro, uses everything to provide a new hardware-assisted hypervisor that is easy to use and has near bare-metal performance. I'd expect between 0.1%

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SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

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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Brendan Gregg

AUGUST 8, 2017

The oldest change in the entire Linux repo dates back to 2005, when Linus imported Linux 2.6.12-rc2, 90491 N|rnberg (Germany) Consulting+Networking+Programming+etc'ing 42. rc5-virtual (bgregg-xenial-bpf-i-0b7296777a2585be1) 08/01/2017 _x86_64_ (8 CPU) 10:15:51 PM UID PID %usr %system %guest %CPU CPU Command 10:16:51 PM 0 18468 2.85

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