Percona

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Please check out the Why Linux HugePages are Super Important for Database Servers: A Case with PostgreSQL blog post for more information. Unfortunately, the performance in benchmarks is almost the same as for 4KB pages. Setup I recommend starting with 2MB huge pages because it’s trivial to set up.

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Percona

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Percona Toolkit is a collection of advanced open source command-line tools, developed and used by the Percona technical staff, that are engineered to perform a variety of MySQL, MariaDB, MongoDB, and PostgreSQL server and system tasks that are too difficult or complex to perform manually. And did I mention they are open source?!

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HammerDB

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Introducing the PostgreSQL performance metrics viewer. HammerDB included a graphical performance metrics view for the Oracle database only. HammerDB includes the same functionality for PostgreSQL enabling the user to drill down on database metrics in real time. Prior to version 4.3, PostgreSQL Graphical Metrics.

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SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 31, 2017

Scatter/gather capabilities allow more efficient memory to disk transfers reducing redundant memory copies, sorting and other activities applications may require to gain improved I/O performance. On Linux the total number of buffers that can be read or written, in a single ABI request, is capped at 2048.

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SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

KB sectors run on smaller sectors   14 System and sample databases   15 Determining the formatted sector size of database   15 What sector sizes does SQL Server support? KB boundary   12 Larger transaction logs   13 Restore and attach   14 Format for 4 ?KB

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