Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

A Cassandra database cluster had switched to Ubuntu and noticed write latency increased by over 30%. CLI tools The Cassandra systems were EC2 virtual machine (Xen) instances. top(1) showed that only the Cassandra database was consuming CPU. A quick check of basic performance statistics showed over 30% higher CPU consumption.

Speed 126

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 126

Dynatrace

APRIL 8, 2021

When using Lambda, you might soon end up using more serverless offerings, like databases, which makes emulating the same environment locally even harder. These served as our benchmark when creating our Lambda monitoring extension. So, stay tuned for more blog posts and announcements. Top enterprise use-cases for AWS Lambda.

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Lambda AWS Serverless Monitoring 179

Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

Another big jump, but now it was my job to run benchmarks in the lab, and write white papers that explained the new products to the world, as they were launched. I was mostly coding in C, tuning FORTRAN, and when I needed to do a lot of data analysis of benchmark results used the S-PLUS statistics language, that is the predecessor to R.

Tuning 52

Tuning Benchmarking Engineering C++ 52

HammerDB

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

If you are new to running Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL and PostgreSQL TPC-C workloads with HammerDB and have needed to investigate I/O performance the chances are that you have experienced waits on writing to the Redo, Transaction Log or WAL depending on the database you are testing. Oracle Log File Sync.

Benchmarking 40

Benchmarking Database C++ Virtualization 40

Percona

APRIL 12, 2023

They came up with a horizontally scalable NoSQL database. Instead of relational (SQL) databases defined primarily through a hierarchy of related sets via tables and columns, their non-relational structure used a system of collections and documents. 2016: The company adds service-loaded MongoDB Professional to its mix.

Open Source 83

Open Source Programming Database Servers 83

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

A Cassandra database cluster had switched to Ubuntu and noticed write latency increased by over 30%. CLI tools The Cassandra systems were EC2 virtual machine (Xen) instances. top(1) showed that only the Cassandra database was consuming CPU. A quick check of basic performance statistics showed over 30% higher CPU consumption.

Speed 40

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 40

n0derunner

MARCH 7, 2019

I use the “built in” benchmark pgbench to run a simple set of queries. pgbench creates a ~7.4gb database using a scale-factor of 500. Then reboot the kernel I used these excellent resources How to modify the kernel command line How to enable hugepages and this great video on Linux virtual memory. Experiment.

Performance 40

Performance Benchmarking C++ Virtualization 40

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

Apica

MAY 10, 2019

The Apica LoadTest solution uses innovative technologies like monitoring nodes and load clusters to reliably deliver and sustain a large-scale load of virtual users (VUs) to Hollywood for different, realistic user scenarios all at the same time. Load and stress-testing benchmark goals for the backend technological components.

Testing 40

Testing Performance Social Media Wireless 40

HammerDB

OCTOBER 12, 2018

Similarly for this guide MySQL can be swapped for a mySQL based databases such as MariaDB. As is also the case this limitation is at the database level (especially the storage engine) rather than the hardware level. As is exactly the same with PostgreSQL for system choice a 2 socket system is optimal for MySQL OLTP performance.

Best Practices 40

Best Practices Scalability Performance C++ 40

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

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? SQL Server 2005 introduces the snapshot database feature for point-in-time databases ​​ and online DBCC operations.

Servers 40

Servers Cache Database Media 40

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

Microsoft SQL Server I/O Basics Author: ​​ Bob Dorr, Microsoft SQL Server Escalation Published: ​​ December, 2004 SUMMARY: ​​ Learn the I/O requirements for Microsoft SQL Server database file operations. This will help you increase system performance and avoid I/O environment errors.

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