Brendan Gregg

JULY 2, 2021

biolatency Disk I/O latency histogram heat map. cachestat File system cache statistics line charts. runqlat CPU scheduler latency heat map. If you really want to do this and have the time, you certainly can (you'll probably wind up at tracing conferences and bumping into me: See you at Linux Plumber's or the Tracing Summit!)

Latency 145

Latency Cache Energy Systems 145

Brendan Gregg

AUGUST 18, 2019

For example, iostat(1), or a monitoring agent, may tell you your average disk latency, but not the distribution of this latency. For smaller environments, it can be of more use helping eliminate latency outliers. Block I/O latency as a histogram. This traces block I/O, and shows latency as a power-of-2 histogram.

Latency 68

Latency C++ Cache Programming 68

The Morning Paper

DECEMBER 8, 2019

At the start of November I was privileged to attend HPTS (the High Performance Transaction Systems) conference in Asilomar. On the last morning of the conference Daniel Bittman presented some of the work being done in the context of the Twizzler OS project to explore new programming models for NVM. The Twizzler programming model.

Hardware 56

Hardware Programming Media Storage 56

The Morning Paper

JANUARY 23, 2020

1:00pm Eastern Standard Time the Personalisation / Homepage Team for Etsy are in a conference room kicking off a lunch-and-learn session on the personalised feed feature on the Etsy.com homepage. 1:18pm a key observation was made that an API call to populate the homepage sidebar saw a huge jump in latency.

Internet 53

Internet Internet Cache Engineering 53

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

The success of our early results with the Dynamo database encouraged us to write Amazon's Dynamo whitepaper and share it at the 2007 ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP conference), so that others in the industry could benefit.

Internet 128

Internet Internet AWS Performance 128

Tim Kadlec

AUGUST 14, 2018

The area he was in was served by satellite internet access, and experienced significant latency (a floor of 506 milliseconds) and packet loss (between 50-80% was typical). To counter this, the school he was visiting sets up their own local caching server. But, as he explains, this approach falls apart when HTTPS gets involved.

Cache 64

Cache Mobile Servers Latency 64

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

Because we are dealing with network protocols here, we will mainly look at network aspects, of which two are most important: latency and bandwidth. Latency can be roughly defined as the time it takes to send a packet from point A (say, the client) to point B (the server). Two-way latency is often called round-trip time (RTT).

Performance 106

Performance Network Latency Servers 106

Brendan Gregg

JULY 2, 2021

biolatency Disk I/O latency histogram heat map 5. cachestat File system cache statistics line charts 7. runqlat CPU scheduler latency heat map 10. Here are the top ten tools you can run and present as a generic BPF observability dashboard, along with suggested visualizations: Tool Shows Visualization 1.

Open Source 40

Open Source Latency Cache Energy 40

The Symphonia

MAY 22, 2018

I was a little restricted in my thinking the first time around and I’ve come to see FaaS as something not quite stateless, since caching state in a Lambda instance that might stick around for 5 hours is a perfectly reasonable idea. I also rewrote the section on Startup Latency since Cold Starts are one of the big “FUD” areas of Serverless.

Serverless 40

Serverless Architecture Lambda Azure 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).

Architecture 40

Architecture Systems Technology Technology 40

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

You may have read some blog posts or heard conference talks on this topic and think you know the answers. However, many other devices are sitting between the client and the server that also have their own TCP code on board (examples include firewalls, load balancers, routers, caching servers, proxies, etc.). Robin Marx.

Transportation 145

Transportation Internet Internet Network 145