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. Ford, et al., “TCP

Performance 110

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 110

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. Ford, et al., “TCP

Performance 52

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

Dean Hume

APRIL 24, 2018

Each HTTP request that is required for the page needs to travel over the network and in turn this consumes energy on both the server and client. Without effective caching on the client, the server will see an increase in workload, more CPU usage and ultimately increased latency for the end user. It’s a win-win all round!

Energy 40

Energy Cache Traffic Website 40

Dean Hume

APRIL 24, 2018

Each HTTP request that is required for the page needs to travel over the network and in turn this consumes energy on both the server and client. Without effective caching on the client, the server will see an increase in workload, more CPU usage and ultimately increased latency for the end user. It’s a win-win all round!

Energy 40

Energy Cache Traffic Website 40

Dean Hume

APRIL 24, 2018

Each HTTP request that is required for the page needs to travel over the network and in turn this consumes energy on both the server and client. Without effective caching on the client, the server will see an increase in workload, more CPU usage and ultimately increased latency for the end user. It’s a win-win all round!

Energy 40

Energy Cache Traffic Website 40

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Nowadays, there are three built-in tracers that you should know about: - **ftrace**: since 2008, this serves many tracing needs, and has been enhanced recently with hist triggers for custom histograms. Here's some output from my zfsdist tool, in bcc/BPF, which measures ZFS latency as a histogram on Linux: # zfsdist.

Virtualization 76

Virtualization AWS Engineering Hardware 76