ACM Sigarch

MARCH 25, 2019

The M/M/1 queue also assumes that the arrival rate is not affected by the unbounded number of tasks in the queue (called an “open system”). For the previous cache miss buffer example, the 32-buffer answer is minimal for 100-ns average miss latency. Figure 2 plots the M/M/1 queue’s latency-throughput trade-off.

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Systems Latency Performance C++ 53

Brendan Gregg

AUGUST 29, 2021

1072-aws (xxx) 12/18/2018 _x86_64_ (16 CPU) avg-cpu: %user %nice %system %iowait %steal %idle 5.03 avg-cpu: %user %nice %system %iowait %steal %idle 14.81 avg-cpu: %user %nice %system %iowait %steal %idle 14.86 avg-cpu: %user %nice %system %iowait %steal %idle 14.95 avg-cpu: %user %nice %system %iowait %steal %idle 14.54

Cache 40

Cache C++ AWS Systems 40

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.

Speed 46

Speed Cache C++ Systems 46

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. This is pretty common and usually goes unnoticed as the flame graph looks ok at first glance.

Java 145

Java Cache Google Hardware 145

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

Open Source Latency Cache Energy 40

SQL Server According to Bob

JUNE 3, 2016

Use SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) or your favorite query editor to connect to a SQL Server 2012 or 2014 instance. Note: You may need to execute the dbcc a second time so buffer cache is hot, eliminating I/O sub-system variants. SQL Server 2014. Paste the script below in a new query window. or newer release.

Hardware 40

Hardware Cache Servers Software Engineering 40

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

Systems Cache Website Network 63

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

After 20 years of neck-in-neck competition, often starting from common code lineages, there just isn't that much left to wring out of the system. Consistent improvement is the name of the game, and it can still have positive impacts, particularly as users lean on the system more heavily over time. Delayed three years [8].

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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. Peer consensus was the primary mechanism used to decide whether to take actions affecting the production systems, and on two occassions changes were pushed through without waiting for automated tests to complete.

Internet 53

Internet Internet Cache Engineering 53

SQL Performance

JUNE 21, 2019

I always check backups first when looking at a new system. Prior to SQL Server 2012, the maximum server memory value only applied to the bufferpool, so customers needed to limit the amount of memory the bufferpool could use to save memory for the operating system and other processes. Memory settings. Statistics. Index maintenance.

Servers 49

Servers Azure Hardware Database 49

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. On the other hand, Azure VM CPU and storage performance has come a long way since I wrote about it back in 2014 ! lanes for I/O connectivity.

Azure 42

Azure Virtualization Storage Benchmarking 42

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. The Moto G4 , for example. The cheapest (high volume) Androids perform like 2012/2013 iPhones, respectively.

Performance 124

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SQL Performance

JULY 16, 2019

This situation was so bad that Microsoft offered a 25% discount on the cost of SQL Server processor core licenses for SQL Server 2012 and SQL Server 2014, if you ran on qualifying AMD Opteron processors with six or more cores. They will also have up to 256MB of L3 cache per processor.

Servers 46

Servers Hardware Architecture Retail 46

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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