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Poor Disk Performance

Brendan Gregg

People often tell me they don't understand performance tool output because they can't tell what's "good" or "bad." It can be hard as performance is subjective. I recently encountered terrible disk performance and thought it'd be useful to collect Linux tool screenshots and share them for reference. I could hear it spin faster.

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Poor Disk Performance

Brendan Gregg

People often tell me they don't understand performance tool output because they can't tell what's "good" or "bad." It can be hard as performance is subjective. I recently encountered terrible disk performance and thought it'd be useful to collect Linux tool screenshots and share them for reference. I could hear it spin faster.

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Poor Disk Performance

Brendan Gregg

People often tell me they don't understand performance tool output because they can't tell what's "good" or "bad." It can be hard as performance is subjective. I recently encountered terrible disk performance and thought it'd be useful to collect Linux tool screenshots and share them for reference. I could hear it spin faster.

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3 Modern Tools For Automated Testing Of Your Web Applications

Testsigma

Owing to how we consume content and perform our day-to-day functions now, businesses are optimizing web apps and how! To ensure our web app performs as intended across various devices and browsers — we have to test our web app. Data-driven testing: We can perform data-driven testing by separating data from the test commands.

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Percona Toolkit – A Quick Introduction to Summary

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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. Platform | Linux Release | Ubuntu 22.04.3

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Tune Linux Kernel Parameters For PostgreSQL Optimization

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For optimum performance, a PostgreSQL database depends on the operating system parameters being defined correctly. Poorly configured OS kernel parameters can cause degradation in database server performance. This results in improved performance. SHMMAX / SHMALL. Until version 9.2, PostgreSQL switched to POSIX shared memory.

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Data Redundancy With the PostgreSQL Citus Extension

Percona

Reference tables can be replicated to all nodes for joins and foreign keys from distributed tables and for maximum read performance. Columnar storage of tables can compress data, speeding up scans and supporting fast projections, both on regular and distributed tables. The same can be said for Citus data sharding. 1 citus | 11.1-1

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