The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

I was drawn in by the headline results here: This paper presents an analysis of how Linux’s performance has evolved over the past seven years… To our surprise, the study shows that the performance of many core operations has worsened or fluctuated significantly over the years. SOSP’19. Measuring the kernel. Headline results.

Performance 108

Performance Benchmarking Tuning Hardware 108

Alex Russell

MARCH 9, 2024

In both cases, the OS will task the browser team to heavily prioritise integrations with the latest OS and hardware features at the expense of more broadly useful capabilities — e.g. shipping "notch" CSS and "force touch" events while neglecting Push. ↩︎ Modern-day Mozilla presents a puzzle within this model.

Benchmarking 59

Benchmarking Strategy Internet Internet 59

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

CLI tools The Cassandra systems were EC2 virtual machine (Xen) instances. As a Xen guest, this profile was gathered using perf(1) and the kernel's software cpu-clock soft interrupts, not the hardware NMI. Microbenchmark os::javaTimeMillis() on both systems. Running this on the two systems saw similar results.

Speed 126

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 126

Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

Photo by Adrian I spent six years at Cambridge Consultants, building some interesting systems, managing our Sun workstations and learning a lot, but by then Sun had opened a sales office across the street, and I wanted to find out what they were going to release next, before everyone else.

Tuning 52

Tuning Benchmarking Engineering C++ 52

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

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. All modern browsers are fast, Chromium and Safari/WebKit included. Media Session API.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

HammerDB

DECEMBER 5, 2020

A full understanding of why this is important requires some knowledge of the evolution of database hardware and software. The HammerDB TPROC-C workload by design intended as CPU and memory intensive workload derived from TPC-C – so that we get to benchmark at maximum CPU performance at a much smaller database footprint.

C++ 40

C++ Benchmarking Virtualization Open Source 40

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Hardware Past As Performance Prologue. Using a global ASP as a benchmark can further mislead thanks to the distorting effect of ultra-high-end prices rising while shipment volumes stagnate. Today, either method returns a similar answer. So what did $150USD fetch in 2019? Say hello to the Moto E6 ! " package. Mind The Gap.

Performance 124

Performance Network Cache Metrics 124

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

CLI tools The Cassandra systems were EC2 virtual machine (Xen) instances. As a Xen guest, this profile was gathered using perf(1) and the kernel's software cpu-clock soft interrupts, not the hardware NMI. Microbenchmark os::javaTimeMillis() on both systems. Running this on the two systems saw similar results.

Speed 52

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 52

SQL Server According to Bob

AUGUST 23, 2021

​​ Can be configured to use a subset of the CPUs presented by the OS from the same memory node. For example: A memory node with 64 CPUs is a complete, O perating System, ​​ scheduler group. For this example, assume the host machine is single node, 8 CPU system.

Servers 40

Servers Azure Operating System Database 40

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

CLI tools The Cassandra systems were EC2 virtual machine (Xen) instances. As a Xen guest, this profile was gathered using perf(1) and the kernel's software cpu-clock soft interrupts, not the hardware NMI. Microbenchmark os::javaTimeMillis() on both systems. Running this on the two systems saw similar results.

Speed 40

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 40

HammerDB

OCTOBER 12, 2018

As with the previous guides as an Intel employee (#IAMINTEL) the examples are taken from a MySQL 8 on Linux on Intel system and the approach is the same for whatever system you are testing although some of the settings you see may be different. For this reason sysbench presents a vastly more simplified workload than HammerDB. .

Best Practices 40

Best Practices Scalability Performance C++ 40

ACM Sigarch

OCTOBER 25, 2018

The rest of the article presents some views on whether additional single thread performance is feasible, and if so, some methods for extracting that performance in light of potential technology changes. She is currently a Principal Hardware Engineer at Microsoft in the Quantum Architecture Group. Extracting More ILP.

Architecture 67

Architecture Technology Technology Innovation 67

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

This will help you increase system performance and avoid I/O environment errors. Important When planning, deploying, and maintaining a Microsoft SQL Server installation, ensure that the I/O system supports all the factors outlined in this article. This White Paper is for informational purposes only.

Servers 40

Servers Cache Media Hardware 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.

Latency 40

Latency Hardware Code Testing 40

John McCalpin

OCTOBER 16, 2016

“Memory Bandwidth and System Balance in HPC Systems” If you are planning to attend the SuperComputing 2016 conference in Salt Lake City next month, be sure to reserve a spot on your calendar for my talk on Wednesday afternoon (4:15pm-5:00pm). McCalpin Presents “Memory Bandwidth and System Balance in HPC Systems”.

Architecture 40

Architecture Systems Technology Technology 40

Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

HTML, CSS, images, and fonts can all be parsed and run at near wire speeds on low-end hardware, but JavaScript is at least three times more expensive, byte-for-byte. was a system properly localised? Please, I beg of you, publish P50, P75, P90, and P95 results for each of your market reports! Equally advertised?),

Performance 90

Performance Network Mobile Speed 90

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

​​ Because Microsoft must respond to changing market conditions, it should not be interpreted to be a commitment on the part of Microsoft, and Microsoft cannot guarantee the accuracy of any information presented after the date of publication. This White Paper is for informational purposes only.

Servers 40

Servers Cache Database Media 40

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

On the other hand, we have hardware constraints on memory and CPU due to JavaScript parsing times (we’ll talk about them in detail later). Geekbench CPU performance benchmarks for the highest selling smartphones globally in 2019. On a middle-class mobile device, that accounts for 15–25 seconds for Time-To-Interactive.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

On the other hand, we have hardware constraints on memory and CPU due to JavaScript parsing and execution times (we’ll talk about them in detail later). Geekbench CPU performance benchmarks for the highest selling smartphones globally in 2019. compared to early 2015.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145