Brendan Gregg

JULY 2, 2021

This is also applicable for people adding it to their own in-house monitoring systems. You likely already have agents running on all your customer systems. There are so many options it's really your own preference based on your existing system and customer environments. cachestat File system cache statistics line charts.

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Brendan Gregg

AUGUST 29, 2021

A service team was debugging a performance issue and noticed it coincided with a high rate of paging. I was asked to help, and used a variety of Linux performance tools to solve this including those that use eBPF and Ftrace. 1072-aws (xxx) 12/18/2018 _x86_64_ (16 CPU) avg-cpu: %user %nice %system %iowait %steal %idle 5.03

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Nick Desaulniers

JUNE 2, 2018

ccache , the compiler cache, is a fantastic way to speed up build times for C and C++ code that I previously recommended. Usually when this happens with ccache, there’s something non-deterministic about the builds that prevents cache hits. make -j4 2008.93s user 231.69s system 346% cpu 10:47.07 Cold Cache.

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Brendan Gregg

MARCH 16, 2024

The problem is that this system has a default libc that has been compiled without frame pointers, so any stack walking stops at the libc layer, producing a partial stack that's missing the application frames. I'm sure this delivered large performance improvements and I wouldn't try arguing against it.

Java 145

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Brendan Gregg

JULY 2, 2021

This is also applicable for people adding it to their own in-house monitoring systems. You likely already have agents running on all your customer systems. There are so many options it's really your own preference based on your existing system and customer environments. cachestat File system cache statistics line charts 7.

Open Source 40

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SQL Server According to Bob

JUNE 3, 2016

. ‘It Just Runs Faster’ – Out of the box SQL Server 2016 DBCC provides you better performance, scale while shrinking your maintenance window(s.). The DBCC CheckDB demonstration loads a table and demonstrates the performance improvement. SQL Server 2014. Bob Dorr – Principal SQL Server Escalation Engineer.

Hardware 40

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Percona

JUNE 4, 2023

Before we dive into the differences between MariaDB and MySQL, we will provide a thorough examination of each relational database management system (RDBMS). While originally designed to be a drop-in replacement for MySQL, it evolved into its own distinct database management system and is now maintained and supported by the MariaDB Foundation.

Open Source 52

Open Source Servers Storage Scalability 52

Abhishek Tiwari

NOVEMBER 3, 2018

Recently I was asked about content management systems (CMS) of the future - more specifically how they are evolving in the era of microservices, APIs, and serverless computing. 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

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Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Back in 2016, I gave a talk outlining the causes and effects of the terrible performance of web apps built using popular tools on the fastest-growing device segment: low-end to mid-range Android phones. Poor performance has a compound effect on user expectations at an ecosystem level. Live by the link, die by the link.

Performance 124

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Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

Classics of the genre include: Apple's just focused on performance! The Performance Argument. As an engineer on a browser team, I'm privy to the blow-by-blow of various performance projects, benchmark fire drills, and the ways performance marketing (deeply) impacts engineering priorities. Steve & Tim's Close-up Magic.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

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. With only an hour or so of degraded performance in the end, it’s not the worst incident you can imagine, but it was clearly taken as very serious given the time of year.

Internet 53

Internet Internet Cache Engineering 53

SQL Performance

JUNE 21, 2019

I always check backups first when looking at a new system. What I find is very similar to backups: No DBCC CHECKDBs performed at all DBCC CHECKDBs being performed only on select databases DBCC CHECKDBs last performed months or years ago. For SQL Server 2008R – 2014, you could lower this threshold using trace flag 2371.

Servers 49

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SQL Performance

APRIL 8, 2019

The L3 cache size is 64MB. The AMD EPYC 7551 processor has slightly lower single-threaded CPU performance when compared to the older 2.3 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. lanes for I/O connectivity.

Azure 42

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SQL Performance

JULY 16, 2019

For many years, I explicitly advised people not to run their SQL Server workloads on AMD hardware because of the much lower single-threaded CPU performance and consequently higher SQL Server core license costs. This has led to a very noticeable reduction in generational performance increases since Broadwell-EP, as shown in Figure 1.

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SQL Server According to Bob

DECEMBER 31, 2018

This was a project I created in 2014 to help Microsoft SQL Server support process incoming XEvent files, including the ability to merge XEvent files from multiple servers such as replication or high availability XEvent capture. CREATE EVENT SESSION [EventSequence] ON SERVER ADD EVENT sqlserver. sql_batch_completed ( ACTION ( package0.

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