The Speed of Time
Brendan Gregg
SEPTEMBER 25, 2021
A Cassandra database cluster had switched to Ubuntu and noticed write latency increased by over 30%. top(1) showed that only the Cassandra database was consuming CPU. Measuring the speed of time Is there already a microbenchmark for os::javaTimeMillis()? What on Earth is Ubuntu doing that results in 30% higher CPU time!?
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