The Morning Paper

MAY 27, 2019

Last week we saw the benefits of rethinking memory and pointer models at the hardware level when it came to object storage and compression ( Zippads ). The protections are hardware implemented and cannot be forged in software. At hardware reset the boot code is granted maximally permissive architectural capabilities.

C++ 61

C++ Hardware Virtualization Benchmarking 61

Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

I became the Sun UK local specialist in performance and hardware, and as Sun transitioned from a desktop workstation company to sell high end multiprocessor servers I was helping customers find and fix scalability problems. We had specializations in hardware, operating systems, databases, graphics, etc.

Tuning 52

Tuning Benchmarking Engineering C++ 52

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

Was there some other program consuming CPU, like a misbehaving Ubuntu service that wasn't in CentOS? As a Xen guest, this profile was gathered using perf(1) and the kernel's software cpu-clock soft interrupts, not the hardware NMI. CLI tools The Cassandra systems were EC2 virtual machine (Xen) instances. But I'm not completely sure.

Speed 126

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 126

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

Was there some other program consuming CPU, like a misbehaving Ubuntu service that wasn't in CentOS? As a Xen guest, this profile was gathered using perf(1) and the kernel's software cpu-clock soft interrupts, not the hardware NMI. CLI tools The Cassandra systems were EC2 virtual machine (Xen) instances.

Speed 52

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 52

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

Was there some other program consuming CPU, like a misbehaving Ubuntu service that wasn't in CentOS? As a Xen guest, this profile was gathered using perf(1) and the kernel's software cpu-clock soft interrupts, not the hardware NMI. CLI tools The Cassandra systems were EC2 virtual machine (Xen) instances. But I'm not completely sure.

Speed 40

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 40

John McCalpin

JANUARY 22, 2018

Dr. Damon McDougall gave a short presentation on this study at the IXPUG 2018 Fall Conference ( pdf ) — I originally wrote these notes to help organize my thoughts as we were preparing the IXPUG presentation, and later decided that the extra details contained here are interesting enough for me to post it. cmpl $1000000000, %eax.

Latency 40

Latency Hardware Code Testing 40