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The Return of the Frame Pointers

Brendan Gregg

The x86-64 ABI documentation shows how a CPU register, %rbp, can be used as a "base pointer" to a stack frame, aka the "frame pointer." Only in extreme circumstances does the cost (in processor time and I-cache footprint) translate to a tangible benefit - circumstances which usually resort to hand-coded assembly anyway.

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HammerDB for Managers

HammerDB

HammerDB is a software application for database benchmarking. It enables the user to measure database performance and make comparative judgements about database hardware and software. Databases are highly sophisticated software, and to design and run a fair benchmark workload is a complex undertaking. Derived Workloads.

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How to Assess MySQL Performance

HammerDB

There are several ways to find out this information with the easiest way being by referring to the documentation. Benchmarking the target Two of the more popular database benchmarks for MySQL are HammerDB and sysbench. Instead, readers should refer to the HammerDB documentation. For storage, FIO is generally used.

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The Ultimate Guide to Database High Availability

Percona

Defining high availability In general terms, high availability refers to the continuous operation of a system with little to no interruption to end users in the event of hardware or software failures, power outages, or other disruptions. If a primary server fails, a backup server can take over and continue to serve requests.

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The Performance Inequality Gap, 2021

Alex Russell

Unless a site is installed to the home screen as a PWA , any single page is just another in a series of documents that users experience as a river of links. A then-representative $200USD device had 4-8 slow (in-order, low-cache) cores, ~2GiB of RAM, and relatively slow MLC NAND flash storage. Hardware Past As Performance Prologue.

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Progress Delayed Is Progress Denied

Alex Russell

As an engineer on a browser team, I'm privy to the blow-by-blow of various performance projects, benchmark fire drills, and the ways performance marketing (deeply) impacts engineering priorities. With each team, benchmarks lost are understood as bugs. is access to hardware devices. This is as it should be. Content Indexing.

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SQL Server I/O Basics Chapter #1

SQL Server According to Bob

Copyright The information contained in this document represents the current view of Microsoft Corporation on the issues discussed as of the date of publication. Microsoft may have patents, patent applications, trademarks, copyrights, or other intellectual property rights covering subject matter in this document.

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