2014 AWS Traffic Tuning 
Brendan Gregg
DECEMBER 31, 2017
My last talk for 2017 was at AWS re:Invent, on "How Netflix Tunes EC2 Instances for Performance," an updated version of my [2014] talk. Our team looks after the BaseAMI, kernel tuning, OS performance tools and profilers, and self-service tools like Vector. Not a lot has changed with these tunables since my [2014] talk.
Brendan Gregg
DECEMBER 30, 2017
My last talk for 2017 was at AWS re:Invent, on "How Netflix Tunes EC2 Instances for Performance," an updated version of my [2014] talk. Our team looks after the BaseAMI, kernel tuning, OS performance tools and profilers, and self-service tools like Vector. Not a lot has changed with these tunables since my [2014] talk.
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Brendan Gregg
SEPTEMBER 25, 2021
These strange questions came to the fore back in 2014 when Netflix was switching services from CentOS Linux to Ubuntu, and I helped debug several weird performance issues including one I'll describe here. Aftermath I provided details to AWS and Canonical, and then moved onto the other performance issues as part of the migration.
Brendan Gregg
SEPTEMBER 25, 2021
These strange questions came to the fore back in 2014 when Netflix was switching services from CentOS Linux to Ubuntu, and I helped debug several weird performance issues including one I'll describe here. Aftermath I provided details to AWS and Canonical, and then moved onto the other performance issues as part of the migration.
Brendan Gregg
SEPTEMBER 5, 2017
Both Xen and KVM have had many performance and security improvements, and workloads can now be tuned to run at almost bare metal speeds (say, a 3% loss or less). If that seems wildly unacceptable, note that you can tune overcommit on Linux to not do this, and behave more like Solaris (see sysctl vm.overcommit_memory).
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