HammerDB

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

HammerDB is a load testing and benchmarking application for relational databases. However, it is crucial that the benchmarking application does not have inherent bottlenecks that artificially limits the scalability of the database. Basic Benchmarking Concepts. To benchmark a database we introduce the concept of a Virtual User.

Programming 67

Programming Benchmarking Virtualization C++ 67

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

In this post I'll look at the Linux kernel page table isolation (KPTI) patches that workaround Meltdown: what overheads to expect, and ways to tune them. I then analyzed performance during the benchmark ([active benchmarking]), and used other benchmarks to confirm findings. Much of my testing was on Linux 4.14.11

Performance 75

Performance Benchmarking Cache Tuning 75

Percona

JANUARY 19, 2023

There are a couple of blog posts from Yves that describe and benchmark MySQL compression: Compression Options in MySQL (Part 1) Compression Options in MySQL (Part 2) Archive or purge old or non-used data: Some companies have to retain data for multiple years either for compliance or for business requirements.

Open Source 90

Open Source Storage Database Big Data 90

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

In this post I'll look at the Linux kernel page table isolation (KPTI) patches that workaround Meltdown: what overheads to expect, and ways to tune them. I then analyzed performance during the benchmark ([active benchmarking]), and used other benchmarks to confirm findings. Much of my testing was on Linux 4.14.11

Performance 40

Performance Benchmarking Cache Tuning 40

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 3, 2022

Once again, even more inconsistency is introduced because they would most definitely test their typefaces with different typographic designs and typesetting settings. There are many typefaces, and many of them are very similar or are nearly identical to previous or contemporary versions available. Stay tuned!

Performance 110

Performance Design Best Practices Testing 110

Randon ASCII

APRIL 17, 2018

When you own all of the code then this may involve some back of the envelope estimates, competitive benchmarking, or intuition tuned by experience. The diagnosis is that file notification buffers are allocated out of pool memory ( ExAllocatePoolWithTag ) and then filled with the available notification data.

Monitoring 43

Monitoring C++ Code Processing 43

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

Many of these systems support I/O ordering with a stable media cache and subsequently combine and/or split I/O requests across available subsystem resources to complete the storing to physical media. For specific information on I/O tuning and balancing, you will find more details in the following document.

Servers 40

Servers Cache Media Hardware 40

High Scalability

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

There are many unique things but the storage layer, event-based sync is definitely worth learning, here are more details on it Egnyte object store and Egnyte Canonical File System. Always be available: Have a service level circuit breaker and a circuit breaker by customer. What lessons have you learned? How Do You Manage Your System?

Architecture 52

Architecture Cache Azure Storage 52