Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

My personal opinion is that I don't see a widespread need for more capacity given horizontal scaling and servers that can already exceed 1 Tbyte of DRAM; bandwidth is also helpful, but I'd be concerned about the increased latency for adding a hop to more memory. The call for participation ends on March 2nd 23:59 SGT!

Performance 110

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 110

Percona

JUNE 4, 2023

In this blog, we’ll provide a comparison between MariaDB vs. MySQL (including Percona Server for MySQL ). Introduction: MariaDB vs. MySQL The goal of this blog post is to evaluate, at a higher level, MariaDB vs. MySQL vs. Percona Server for MySQL side-by-side to better inform the decision making process. What is MariaDB?

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Open Source Servers Storage Scalability 52

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

My personal opinion is that I don't see a widespread need for more capacity given horizontal scaling and servers that can already exceed 1 Tbyte of DRAM; bandwidth is also helpful, but I'd be concerned about the increased latency for adding a hop to more memory. The call for participation ends on March 2nd 23:59 SGT!

Performance 52

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

Randon ASCII

FEBRUARY 11, 2018

GB of page/non-paged pool, few processes running, and no process using anywhere near enough to explain where the memory had gone: My machine has 96 GB of RAM – lucky me – and when I don’t have any programs running I think it’s reasonable to hope that I’d have at least half of it available. In the example below task manager shows 49.8

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Processing Programming Code Cache 72

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2021

Yet, for all these technological developments, it’s interesting that many of us are still serving sites in the same way Tim did with the very first website — a web server serving static website files. MovableType was one of the first static site generators on the market, although that term wouldn’t become popular until 2008.

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Ecommerce Website Government Internet 139

Randon ASCII

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

This was starting to look like a Windows file cache bug. Maybe something to do with multi-socket coherency of the disk and cache or ??? The next step was a custom C++ program that opened the just-linked exe and called FlushFileBuffers on it. failure rate. 7-second sleep after linking exes: 2% failure rate.

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Programming Hardware Cache Code 79