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. As a Xen guest, this profile was gathered using perf(1) and the kernel's software cpu-clock soft interrupts, not the hardware NMI.

Speed 126

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 126

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. As a Xen guest, this profile was gathered using perf(1) and the kernel's software cpu-clock soft interrupts, not the hardware NMI.

Speed 40

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 40

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Hit Ctrl-C to end. ^C C operation = 'read' usecs : count distribution 0 -> 1 : 0 | | 2 -> 3 : 0 | | 4 -> 7 : 4479 | *| 8 -> 15 : 1028 | | 16 -> 31 : 14 | | 32 -> 63 : 1 | | [.]. Many new tools can now be written, and the main toolkit we're working on is [bcc]. Tracing ZFS operation latency.

Virtualization 76

Virtualization AWS Engineering Hardware 76