The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

The wikipedia page on floating point numbers describes a number of related accuracy problems including the difficulty of testing for equality. In day-to-day usage, beyond judicious use of ‘within’ for equality testing, I suspect most of us ignore the potential difficulties of floating point arithmetic even if we shouldn’t.

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Benchmarking Hardware Programming Code 101

John McCalpin

APRIL 25, 2023

This metric is interesting because we don’t always have the luxury of parallelizing every application we run, and our operating systems almost always process each call (e.g., GHz, 1530 GB/s peak BW from 6 HBM stacks), I see single-thread sustained memory bandwidth of 304 GB/s on the ReadOnly benchmark used here. Stay tuned!

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Benchmarking Cache Latency Tuning 97

HammerDB

JUNE 27, 2022

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. HammerDB development.

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Benchmarking Open Source C++ Cache 62

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

For the rest of us, if you really need that extra performance (maybe what you get out-of-the-box or with minimal tuning is good enough for your use case) then you can upgrade hardware and/or pay for a commercial license of a tuned distributed (RHEL). This causes average slowdowns of 66% across the select , poll , and epoll tests.

Performance 108

Performance Benchmarking Tuning Hardware 108

HammerDB

APRIL 19, 2023

Therefore, before we attempt to measure our database performance, we should know the system or cloud instance to be tested in detail. Benchmarking the target Two of the more popular database benchmarks for MySQL are HammerDB and sysbench. This allows us to know our operating environment and its capability. 4.22 %usr 38.40

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Performance Benchmarking Cache Storage 54

Percona

MARCH 23, 2023

Hardware Memory The amount of RAM to be provisioned for database servers can vary greatly depending on the size of the database and the specific requirements of the company. As datasets continue to grow in size, the amount of RAM required to store and process these datasets also increases. Benchmark before you decide.

Performance 127

Performance Hardware Tuning Storage 127

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

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.

Availability 111

Availability Database Open Source Hardware 111

Percona

MAY 1, 2023

Key areas include: Configuration parameter tuning : This tuning involves altering variables such as memory allocation, disk I/O settings, and concurrent connections based on specific hardware and requirements. Throughput: The throughput of an application is directly influenced by the speed at which the database can process and serve queries.

Tuning 52

Tuning Efficiency Database Performance 52

HammerDB

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

HammerDB is a load testing and benchmarking application for relational databases. All the databases that HammerDB tests implement a form of MVCC (multi-version concurrency control). This post explains why HammerDB made the language decisions it made to make it the best performing and most usable database benchmarking software.

Programming 67

Programming Benchmarking Virtualization C++ 67

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

Indexing efficiency Monitoring indexing efficiency in MySQL involves analyzing query performance, using EXPLAIN statements, utilizing performance monitoring tools, reviewing error logs, performing regular index maintenance, and benchmarking/testing. This KPI is also directly related to Query Performance and helps improve it.

Performance 107

Performance Monitoring Traffic Database 107

KeyCDN

AUGUST 15, 2019

Web performance is a broad subject, and you’ll find no shortage of performance testing tips and tutorials all over the web. Before you begin tuning your website or application, you must first figure out which metrics matter most to your users and establish some achievable benchmarks. What is Performance Testing?

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Testing Tools Best Practices Performance Testing Testing 55

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. And this all has to work for whole-system executions, not just the C-language portion of user processes.

C++ 61

C++ Hardware Virtualization Benchmarking 61

Speed Curve

MARCH 7, 2022

These numbers should not be taken as a benchmark for your own site. JavaScript is a massive CPU hog, so this is concerning, especially if your users are on older devices with less processing power. (If You can see this by looking at the synthetic test result for Sears.com (again, available via our Industry Benchmarks ).

Mobile 145

Mobile Benchmarking Google Metrics 145

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

What about short-lived processes, like a service restarting in a loop? As a Xen guest, this profile was gathered using perf(1) and the kernel's software cpu-clock soft interrupts, not the hardware NMI. There's also a test and println() in the loop to, hopefully, convince the compiler not to optimize-out an otherwise empty loop.

Speed 126

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 126

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

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. Helps media apps on the web save battery when doing video processing.

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Media Games Education Engineering 145

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.

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Tuning Benchmarking Engineering C++ 52

Percona

AUGUST 5, 2023

This means that multiple partitions can be processed simultaneously, making better use of available hardware resources and further enhancing query performance. Special considerations are needed to ensure these processes still work seamlessly after partitioning. Documentation : Always be documenting! Migrating to MySQL 8.0

Strategy 40

Strategy Storage Database Best Practices 40

Percona

JANUARY 19, 2023

Example: Creating four simple tables to store strings but using different data types: db1 test> CREATE TABLE tb1 (id int auto_increment primary key, test_text char(200)); Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.11 sec) db1 test> CREATE TABLE tb2 (id int auto_increment primary key, test_text varchar(200)); Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.05

Open Source 91

Open Source Storage Database Big Data 91

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Advances in browser content processing. 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. Modern network performance and availability. Content Is Dead, Long Live Content. Mind The Gap.

Performance 124

Performance Network Cache Metrics 124

Scalegrid

JULY 13, 2020

of PostgreSQL users are currently in the process of migrating to the RDBMS, according to the 2019 PostgreSQL Trends Report , an astounding percentage considering this is the 4th most popular database in the world. Oracle support for hardware and software packages is typically available at 22% of their licensing fees. So Which Is Best?

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Open Source Tuning C++ Database 244

Abhishek Tiwari

DECEMBER 27, 2017

In 2018, a widespread adaptation of Kubernetes for big data processing is anitcipated. A recent performance benchmark completed by Intel and BlueData using the BigBench benchmarking kit has shown that the performance ratios for container-based Hadoop workloads on BlueData EPIC are equal to and in some cases, better than bare-metal Hadoop [7].

Big Data 63

Big Data Storage Benchmarking Hardware 63

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. Meanwhile, budget segment devices have finally started to see improvement ( as this series predicted ), thanks to hand-me-down architecture and process node improvements.

Performance 90

Performance Network Mobile Speed 90

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

What about short-lived processes, like a service restarting in a loop? As a Xen guest, this profile was gathered using perf(1) and the kernel's software cpu-clock soft interrupts, not the hardware NMI. There's also a test and println() in the loop to, hopefully, convince the compiler not to optimize-out an otherwise empty loop.

Speed 52

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 52

Speed Curve

JULY 3, 2023

These numbers should not be taken as a benchmark for your own site. Amazon is a good example of a site that serves large, fast pages, as you can see in this recent look at our Retail Page Speed Benchmarks : In the waterfall chart for this test run , you can see why the Amazon home page ranks fastest for Start Render.

Mobile 52

Mobile Google Metrics Retail 52

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

What about short-lived processes, like a service restarting in a loop? As a Xen guest, this profile was gathered using perf(1) and the kernel's software cpu-clock soft interrupts, not the hardware NMI. There's also a test and println() in the loop to, hopefully, convince the compiler not to optimize-out an otherwise empty loop.

Speed 40

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 40

Alex Russell

OCTOBER 22, 2017

Budgets are scaled to a benchmark network & device. Automating testing against an objective baseline. Answering it requires an understanding of how browsers process resources (which differs by type) and the concept of the critical path. This input processing happens on document’s main thread , where JavaScript runs.

Performance 68

Performance Benchmarking Network Mobile 68

HammerDB

OCTOBER 12, 2018

This post complements the previous best practice guides this time with the focus on MySQL and MariaDB and achieving top levels of performance with the HammerDB MySQL TPC-C test. As is also the case this limitation is at the database level (especially the storage engine) rather than the hardware level. hardware limits: 1000 MHz - 3.80

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Best Practices Scalability Performance C++ 40

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

Example 1: ​​ Hardware failure (CPU board) Battery backup on the caching controller maintained the data. Important Always consult with your hardware manufacturer for proper stable media strategies. Most manufacturers' implementations immediately flush pending writes to physical disk during the restart operations.

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Servers Cache Media Hardware 40

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

So, if we created an overview of all the things we have to keep in mind when improving performance — from the very start of the process until the final release of the website — what would that list look like? Testing And Monitoring. You can then mimic the 90th percentile’s experience for testing. Table Of Contents.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Testing And Monitoring Auditing workflow, proxy browsers, 404 page, GDPR cookie consent prompts, performance diagnostics CSS, accessibility. You can then mimic the 90th percentile’s experience for testing. Now you have something measurable to test against. Quick Wins. Download The Checklist (PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word).

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Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

DBCC Page Auditing DBCC page auditing is the process of executing common DBCC consistency checks as pages are read from disk. Pull-the-plug testing should be ​​ done by using ​​ either ​​ the ​​ production ​​ environment ​​ or a replica of this environment.

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Servers Cache Database Media 40

High Scalability

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Your Laptop has a filesystem used by hundreds of processes. It is limited by the disk space; it can’t expand storage elastically; it chokes if you run few I/O intensive processes or try collaborating with 100 other users. On prem data processing. Locks used for strong consistency across processes. Document store.

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Architecture Cache Azure Storage 52