Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

Simply put, it’s the set of computational tasks that cloud systems perform, such as hosting databases, enabling collaboration tools, or running compute-intensive algorithms. Such demanding use cases place a great value on systems capable of fast and reliable execution, a need that spans across various industry segments.

Cloud 130

Cloud Virtualization Storage Efficiency 130

Scalegrid

JULY 29, 2020

However, these must be set up outside the PostgreSQL system, while PgBouncer can offload this to the PostgreSQL server. PgBouncer provides a virtual database that reports various useful statistics. All of the PostgreSQL benchmark tests were run under the following conditions: Initialized pgbench using a scale factor of 100.

Benchmarking 246

Benchmarking Database Performance Testing Availability 246

HammerDB

OCTOBER 18, 2019

HammerDB doesn’t publish competitive database benchmarks, instead we always encourage people to be better informed by running their own. So over at Phoronix some database benchmarks were published showing PostgreSQL 12 Performance With AMD EPYC 7742 vs. Intel Xeon Platinum 8280 Benchmarks . uname -a Linux ubuntu19 5.3.0-rc3-custom

Benchmarking 63

Benchmarking Performance Hardware C++ 63

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. Note that Ubuntu also has a frame to show entry into vDSO (virtual dynamic shared object). Microbenchmark os::javaTimeMillis() on both systems.

Speed 52

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 52

HammerDB

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

This post at an entry-level discusses the options you have to improve log throughput in your benchmark environment. . Additionally for the log disk component it is latency for an individual write that is crucial rather than the total I/O bandwidth. SQL> alter system flush buffer_cache; System altered.

Benchmarking 40

Benchmarking Database C++ Virtualization 40

SQL Performance

APRIL 8, 2019

Back on December 5, 2017, Microsoft announced that they were using AMD EPYC 7551 processors in their storage-optimized Lv2-Series virtual machines. I wrote about using CPU-Z to benchmark the Intel Xeon E5-2673 v3 processor in an Azure VM in this article. Figure 1: CPU-Z Benchmark Results for LS16v2. 10 x 1.9TB NVMe SSD.

Azure 42

Azure Virtualization Storage Benchmarking 42

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. Note that Ubuntu also has a frame to show entry into vDSO (virtual dynamic shared object). Microbenchmark os::javaTimeMillis() on both systems.

Speed 40

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 40

Percona

APRIL 7, 2023

To illustrate this, I ran the Sysbench-TPCC synthetic benchmark against two different GCP instances running a freshly installed Percona Server for MySQL version 8.0.31 We have long been surfing the virtualization wave (to keep it broad). MySQL (B) 2517529 2610323 389048 5516900 194140 11523.48

Tuning 133

Tuning Cache Servers Benchmarking 133

Alex Russell

MAY 9, 2022

This is a complex topic, but to borrow from a recent post , web performance expands access to information and services by reducing latency and variance across interactions in a session, with a particular focus on the tail of the distribution (P75+). Only teams that master their systems can make intentional trade-offs.

Performance 86

Performance Latency Metrics Engineering 86

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

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. System Setup: CPU, Memory and I/O Configuration. HammerDB difference from Sysbench.

Best Practices 40

Best Practices Scalability Performance C++ 40

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

​​ Without limiting the rights under copyright, no part of this document may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise), or for any purpose, without the express written permission of Microsoft Corporation.

Servers 40

Servers Cache Database Media 40

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. The modifications persist even in the event of a system failure.

Servers 40

Servers Cache Media Hardware 40

ScaleOut Software

MAY 15, 2014

Likewise, object access paths must be heavily multi-threaded and avoid lock contention to minimize access latency and maximize throughput. These are areas in which we have invested heavily to take advantage of 10 Gbps (and faster) networks and to handle intermittent network delays inherent in virtual server infrastructures.

Cache 40

Cache Servers Network Design 40

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Estimated Input Latency tells us if we are hitting that threshold, and ideally, it should be below 50ms. Designed for the modern web, it responds to actual congestion, rather than packet loss like TCP does, it is significantly faster , with higher throughput and lower latency — and the algorithm works differently.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145