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. It's an exciting development in cloud computing: hardware virtualization is now fast. Virtualized in Hardware**: Hardware support for virtualization, and near bare-metal speeds.

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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. It's an exciting development in cloud computing: hardware virtualization is now fast. Virtualized in Hardware**: Hardware support for virtualization, and near bare-metal speeds.

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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, Anyway, the following patch seems to make the load average much more consistent WRT the subjective speed of the system. This, too, was a dead end. rc2, and this change predates that. 3 tar termb$ iostat -x 60. [.] termc$ uptime.

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