Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

CLI tools The Cassandra systems were EC2 virtual machine (Xen) instances. Since instances of both CentOS and Ubuntu were running in parallel, I could collect flame graphs at the same time (same time-of-day traffic mix) and compare them side by side. This was much worse many years ago on Xen virtual machine guests.

Speed 126

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 126

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Linux has been adding tracing technologies over the years: kprobes (kernel dynamic tracing), uprobes (user-level dynamic tracing), tracepoints (static tracing), and perf_events (profiling and hardware counters). What happens if processes really do try to populate all that virtual memory?

Virtualization 76

Virtualization AWS Engineering Hardware 76

Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

This blog was originally published in October 2017 and was updated in September 2023. Vertical scaling is also often discussed, which involves increasing the resources of a single server, which can have limitations in hardware capabilities and become costly as demands grow. An example is running MongoDB on Mesos.

Best Practices 72

Best Practices Traffic Database Servers 72

Percona

JULY 7, 2023

HA in PostgreSQL databases delivers virtually continuous availability, fault tolerance, and disaster recovery. Also, in general terms, a high availability PostgreSQL solution must cover four key areas: Infrastructure: This is the physical or virtual hardware database systems rely on to run. there cannot be high availability.

Availability 84

Availability Open Source Architecture Database 84

SQL Server According to Bob

DECEMBER 18, 2018

Durability is a cornerstone of any database system and starting with SQL Server 2017 on Linux Cumulative Update 6 (CU6), SQL Server on Linux enables “Forced Flush” behavior as described in this article , improving durability on non-Fua optimized systems. “Be Linux may need similar utilities to control various hardware cache installations.

Servers 90

Servers Media Cache Storage 90

Percona

AUGUST 15, 2023

This blog was originally published in February 2017 and was updated in August 2023. It’s a rather new plugin build for virtual synchronous replication. wsrep patches / Galera Library This solution is virtually synchronous, which is comparable to Group Replication. and was GA’ed in MySQL 5.7.17.

Servers 52

Servers Database Availability Traffic 52

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

CLI tools The Cassandra systems were EC2 virtual machine (Xen) instances. Since instances of both CentOS and Ubuntu were running in parallel, I could collect flame graphs at the same time (same time-of-day traffic mix) and compare them side by side. This was much worse many years ago on Xen virtual machine guests.

Speed 40

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 40