The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 4, 2019

Because microprocessors are so fast, computer architecture design has evolved towards adding various levels of caching between compute units and the main memory, in order to hide the latency of bringing the bits to the brains. This avoids thrashing caches too much for B and evens out the pressure on the L3 caches of the machine.

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Cache Latency Airlines Logistics 251

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. order by c.

Best Practices 40

Best Practices Scalability Performance C++ 40

HammerDB

OCTOBER 8, 2018

This post gives a HOWTO guide on system configuration for achieving top levels of performance with the HammerDB PostgreSQL TPC-C test. CPUs which run at the same hardware frequency: 0. maximum transition latency: Cannot determine or is not supported. hardware limits: 1000 MHz - 3.80 Latency: 0. Usage: 10736.

Best Practices 40

Best Practices Scalability Performance Hardware 40

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

A Cassandra database cluster had switched to Ubuntu and noticed write latency increased by over 30%. As a Xen guest, this profile was gathered using perf(1) and the kernel's software cpu-clock soft interrupts, not the hardware NMI. As (C) looked like a kernel rebuild, I started with (D) and (E). ## 5. us on Centos and 0.68

Speed 126

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 126

HammerDB

OCTOBER 18, 2019

Nevertheless in this blog sometimes we do publish performance data to highlight best practices or potential configuration pitfalls and although we’ve mentioned this one before it is worth dedicating an entire post to it as this issue seems to appear numerous times running database workloads on Linux. (Yes

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%. As a Xen guest, this profile was gathered using perf(1) and the kernel's software cpu-clock soft interrupts, not the hardware NMI. As (C) looked like a kernel rebuild, I started with (D) and (E). Ubuntu is 5x slower.

Speed 52

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 52

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

A Cassandra database cluster had switched to Ubuntu and noticed write latency increased by over 30%. As a Xen guest, this profile was gathered using perf(1) and the kernel's software cpu-clock soft interrupts, not the hardware NMI. As (C) looked like a kernel rebuild, I started with (D) and (E). ## 6. us on Centos and 0.68

Speed 40

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 40