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ZFS Is Mysteriously Eating My CPU

Brendan Gregg

A microservice team asked me for help with a mysterious issue. They claimed that the ZFS file system was consuming 30% of CPU capacity. I summarized this case study at [Kernel Recipes] in 2017 and have shared the full story here. ## 1. Problem Statement The microservice was for metrics ingestion and had recently updated their base OS image (BaseAMI).

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The lost art of Database Server Initialization.

Percona Community

With all the DBaaS, IaaS and PaaS environments, sometimes I think the Art of MySQL initialization is becoming a lost art. Many times we just delete the MySQL Server and order a new one. Just recently I was talking with a colleague, and this subject came up. We both thought about it and decided we have become spoiled by automation. We were both rusty on this process.

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ZFS Is Mysteriously Eating My CPU

Brendan Gregg

A microservice team asked me for help with a mysterious issue. They claimed that the ZFS file system was consuming 30% of CPU capacity. I summarized this case study at Kernel Recipes in 2017; it is an old story that's worth resharing here. 1. Problem Statement The microservice was for metrics ingestion and had recently updated their base OS image (BaseAMI).

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ZFS Is Mysteriously Eating My CPU

Brendan Gregg

A microservice team asked me for help with a mysterious issue. They claimed that the ZFS file system was consuming 30% of CPU capacity. I summarized this case study at [Kernel Recipes] in 2017; it is an old story that's worth resharing here. ## 1. Problem Statement The microservice was for metrics ingestion and had recently updated their base OS image (BaseAMI).

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