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What Adrian Did Next?—?Part 2?—?Sun Microsystems

Adrian Cockcroft

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.

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Is MongoDB Open Source? Is Planet Earth Flat?

Percona

Though still not “profitable” by many benchmarks, it’s a lot closer to being so, perhaps in a big way.) That early decision was notable because whereas the GPL is applied if derivative work is distributed, the AGPL license applies both for distributed work and whenever end users interact with a program over a network.

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What programming languages does HammerDB use and why does it matter?

HammerDB

HammerDB is a load testing and benchmarking application for relational databases. However, it is crucial that the benchmarking application does not have inherent bottlenecks that artificially limits the scalability of the database. This is why the choice of programming language is so important from the outset.

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The Speed of Time

Brendan Gregg

CLI tools The Cassandra systems were EC2 virtual machine (Xen) instances. Was there some other program consuming CPU, like a misbehaving Ubuntu service that wasn't in CentOS? Note that Ubuntu also has a frame to show entry into vDSO (virtual dynamic shared object). include <sys/time.h>

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The Speed of Time

Brendan Gregg

CLI tools The Cassandra systems were EC2 virtual machine (Xen) instances. Was there some other program consuming CPU, like a misbehaving Ubuntu service that wasn't in CentOS? Note that Ubuntu also has a frame to show entry into vDSO (virtual dynamic shared object). include <sys/time.h>

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SQL Server I/O Basics Chapter #2

SQL Server According to Bob

​​ However, the ​​ algorithm ​​ has been ​​ tuned ​​ and the resulting ​​ affect ​​ is ​​ minimal. ​​ The following table outlines the virtual protection states.

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SQL Server I/O Basics Chapter #1

SQL Server According to Bob

For specific information on I/O tuning and balancing, you will find more details in the following document. The BPool consumes the majority of the user mode address space leaving only a few 100 MB of the virtual address range free for thread stacks, DLLs, and other activities.

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