ACM Sigarch

MARCH 25, 2019

How many buffers are needed to track pending requests as a function of needed bandwidth and expected latency? Can one both minimize latency and maximize throughput for unscheduled work? The M/M/1 queue will show us a required trade-off among (a) allowing unscheduled task arrivals, (b) minimizing latency, and (c) maximizing throughput.

Systems 53

Systems Latency Performance C++ 53

Brendan Gregg

JULY 2, 2021

biolatency Disk I/O latency histogram heat map. runqlat CPU scheduler latency heat map. biolatency Disk I/O latency histogram heat map. runqlat CPU scheduler latency heat map. I chose these to find the most performance wins with the fewest tools. execsnoop New processes (via exec(2)) table. at the time.

Latency 145

Latency Cache Energy Systems 145

SQL Performance

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

I would like to share a couple of recent examples that help illustrate how using deprecated SQL Server features continues to bite us. The system table sys.sysprocesses was replaced way back in SQL Server 2005 by a set of dynamic management views (DMVs), most notably sys.dm_exec_requests , sys.dm_exec_sessions , and sys.dm_exec_connections.

Latency 57

Latency Servers Monitoring Systems 57

MachMetrics

JUNE 16, 2020

In a vacuum, an SSL certificate does add some additional latency, as it requires 2 extra round trips to establish a secure connection before sending any data to the browser. Secondly, SSL/HTTPS unlocks additional web performance benefits that more than make up for the added latency. How HTTPS Improves Performance.

Speed 86

Speed Latency Google Website 86

SQL Server According to Bob

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

When we released Always On Availability Groups in SQL Server 2012 as a new and powerful way to achieve high availability, hardware environments included NUMA machines with low-end multi-core processors and SATA and SAN drives for storage (some SSDs). As we moved towards SQL Server 2014, the pace of hardware accelerated.

Availability 40

Availability Servers Hardware Benchmarking 40

SQL Performance

APRIL 8, 2019

These AMD EPYC processors have a number of advantages for SQL Server workloads, as I will explain in this article. This 14nm first-generation AMD EPYC 7551 processor has 32 cores and 64 threads, and it works in one or two-socket servers. This makes it a good choice for many SQL Server workloads, especially DW workloads.

Azure 42

Azure Virtualization Storage Benchmarking 42

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. A Cassandra database cluster had switched to Ubuntu and noticed write latency increased by over 30%.

Speed 52

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 52

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. A Cassandra database cluster had switched to Ubuntu and noticed write latency increased by over 30%.

Speed 40

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 40

Abhishek Tiwari

NOVEMBER 3, 2018

If you put your whole website on CDN, technically you don’t need a large number of server infrastructure and CMS licenses. 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.

Systems 63

Systems Cache Website Network 63

Tim Kadlec

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

Macbook Air (2014). Macbook Air (2014). Macbook Air (2014). Macbook Air (2014). On powerful devices, like my Macbook Air (2014), parse and execution time was negligible. Render on the server If you’re using a client-side MVC framework, make sure you pre-render on the server. Firefox 31.

Latency 41

Latency Google Hardware Servers 41

Brendan Gregg

AUGUST 8, 2017

If they are higher than your CPU count, then you might have a performance problem (it depends). And here's an excerpt from [Linux] today (include/linux/sched/loadavg.h): #define EXP_1 1884 /* 1/exp(5sec/1min) as fixed-point */ #define EXP_5 2014 /* 1/exp(5sec/5min) */ #define EXP_15 2037 /* 1/exp(5sec/15min) */. to the load average.

Latency 111

Latency Metrics C++ Systems 111

Brendan Gregg

JULY 2, 2021

biolatency Disk I/O latency histogram heat map 5. runqlat CPU scheduler latency heat map 10. biolatency Disk I/O latency histogram heat map 5. runqlat CPU scheduler latency heat map 10. I chose these to find the most performance wins with the fewest tools. execsnoop New processes (via exec(2)) table 2. at the time.

Open Source 40

Open Source Latency Cache Energy 40

KeyCDN

JUNE 20, 2019

Having high-quality images on your site can however slow down the performance of your site overall as the image size grows. Online users are becoming less and less patient meaning you as an eCommerce store owner need to implement methods for reducing latency and speeding up your website. This reduces latency and speeds up your website.

Ecommerce 41

Ecommerce Speed Website Mobile 41

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Here's some output from my zfsdist tool, in bcc/BPF, which measures ZFS latency as a histogram on Linux: # zfsdist. Tracing ZFS operation latency. As a performance engineer who does kernel tracing, I find the lack of an ID I can trace in the kernel to be pretty annoying. Oracle VM Server is based on Xen.

Virtualization 76

Virtualization AWS Engineering Hardware 76