Percona
MARCH 23, 2023
This blog is in reference to our previous ones for ‘Innodb Performance Optimizations Basics’ 2007 and 2013. Hardware Memory The amount of RAM to be provisioned for database servers can vary greatly depending on the size of the database and the specific requirements of the company. Setting oom_score_adj to -800.
Brendan Gregg
JULY 4, 2021
AWS Graviton2); for memory with the arrival of DDR5 and High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) on-processor; for storage including new uses for 3D Xpoint as a 3D NAND accelerator; for networking with the rise of QUIC and eXpress Data Path (XDP); and so on. I also wrote about these topics in detail for my recent [Systems Performance 2nd Edition] book.
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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%
Brendan Gregg
FEBRUARY 28, 2023
Make sure your system can handle next-generation DRAM,” [link] Nov 2011 - [Hruska 12] Joel Hruska, “The future of CPU scaling: Exploring options on the cutting edge,” [link] Feb 2012 - [Gregg 13] Brendan Gregg, “Blazing Performance with Flame Graphs,” [link] 2013 - [Shimpi 13] Anand Lal Shimpi, “Seagate to Ship 5TB HDD in 2014 using Shingled Magnetic (..)
Brendan Gregg
JULY 4, 2021
AWS Graviton2); for memory with the arrival of DDR5 and High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) on-processor; for storage including new uses for 3D Xpoint as a 3D NAND accelerator; for networking with the rise of QUIC and eXpress Data Path (XDP); and so on. I also wrote about these topics in detail for my recent [Systems Performance 2nd Edition] book.
Scalegrid
JULY 13, 2020
While Oracle remains the #1 database on the market, its popularity has steadily declined by over 18% since 2013. pg_repack – reorganizes tables online to reclaim storage. Oracle support for hardware and software packages is typically available at 22% of their licensing fees. What’s causing this massive shift?
Brendan Gregg
FEBRUARY 28, 2023
Make sure your system can handle next-generation DRAM,” [link] , Nov 2011 [Hruska 12] Joel Hruska, “The future of CPU scaling: Exploring options on the cutting edge,” [link] , Feb 2012 [Gregg 13] Brendan Gregg, “Blazing Performance with Flame Graphs,” [link] , 2013 [Shimpi 13] Anand Lal Shimpi, “Seagate to Ship 5TB HDD in 2014 using Shingled Magnetic (..)
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