Brendan Gregg

AUGUST 29, 2021

Reads usually have apps waiting on them; writes may not (write-back caching). biolatency From [bcc], this eBPF tool shows a latency histogram of disk I/O. This is a 64-Gbyte memory system, and 48 Gbytes is in the page cache (the file system cache). This shows many cache misses, with a hit ratio varying between 6.5

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Cache C++ AWS Systems 40

Brendan Gregg

JULY 2, 2021

biolatency Disk I/O latency histogram heat map 5. cachestat File system cache statistics line charts 7. runqlat CPU scheduler latency heat map 10. As an extreme example, I wrote cachestat(8) while on vacation in 2014 for use on the Netflix cloud, which was a mix of Linux 3.2 execsnoop New processes (via exec(2)) table 2.

Open Source 40

Open Source Latency Cache Energy 40

Abhishek Tiwari

NOVEMBER 3, 2018

Using CDN for the whole website, you can offload most of the website traffic to your CDN which will handle not only large traffic spikes but also reduce the latency of content delivery. They often get blindsided by vendor’s pitch and end-up making decision based on some fancy demos (see my post from 2014 on Adobe AEM ).

Systems 63

Systems Cache Website Network 63

The Morning Paper

JANUARY 23, 2020

Today we’ll be digging into the analysis of an incident that took place at Etsy on December 4th, 2014. 1:18pm a key observation was made that an API call to populate the homepage sidebar saw a huge jump in latency. This is part 2 of our look at Allspaw’s 2015 master thesis (here’s part 1 ).

Internet 53

Internet Internet Cache Engineering 53

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

Delayed three years ( Chrome 40, November 2014 vs. Safari 11.1, A subset ( element.animate() ) has enabled developers to more easily create high-performance visual effects with lower risk of visual stuttering in Chrome and Firefox since 2014. Critical in adapting web content to mobile, particularly regarding multi-touch gestures.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

A then-representative $200USD device had 4-8 slow (in-order, low-cache) cores, ~2GiB of RAM, and relatively slow MLC NAND flash storage. mid-priced Androids were slightly faster than 2014's iPhone 6. Sadly, data on latency is harder to get, even from Google's perch, so progress there is somewhat more difficult to judge.

Performance 124

Performance Network Cache Metrics 124

SQL Performance

APRIL 8, 2019

The L3 cache size is 64MB. The older Intel Xeon E5-26xx v3 (Haswell) series which was introduced in Q3 of 2014, had a maximum memory bandwidth of 2133MHz. The L3 cache size is 64MB. They feature low latency, local NVMe storage that can directly leverage the 128 PCIe 3.0 lanes for I/O connectivity. Azure Lsv2 Details.

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Azure Virtualization Storage Benchmarking 42