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Notes on tuning postgres for cpu and memory benchmarking
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  • Postgres
  • Database Performance

Notes on tuning postgres for cpu and memory benchmarking

  • gary
  • October 18, 2024
Recently I wanted to measure the impact of NUMA placement and Hugepages on the performance of postgres running in a…
Running the ML-Perf Storage benchmark on Nutanix files.
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  • Workloads & Benchmarks

Running the ML-Perf Storage benchmark on Nutanix files.

  • gary
  • September 15, 2023
Some technical notes on our submission to the benchmark committee. Background For the past few months engineers from Nutanix have…
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  • X-Ray

Advanced X-Ray: reducing runtime by re-using VMs.

  • gary
  • October 5, 2020
How to speed up your X-ray benchmark development cycle by re-using/re-cycling benchmark VMs and more importantly data-sets.
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  • diskspd

Microsoft diskspd. Part 2 How to bypass NTFS Cache.

  • gary
  • April 7, 2020
How to ensure performance testing with diskspd is stressing the underlying storage devices, not the OS filesystem.
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  • diskspd

Microsoft diskspd. Part 1 Preparing to test.

  • gary
  • March 30, 2020
How to install and setup diskspd before starting your first performance tests and avoiding wrong results due to null byte…
Why does my SSD not issue 1MB IO’s?
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  • Storage Performance

Why does my SSD not issue 1MB IO’s?

  • gary
  • March 13, 2020
First things First Why do we tend to use 1MB IO sizes for throughput benchmarking? To achieve the maximum throughput…
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  • Database Performance

HammerDB: Avoiding bottlenecks in client.

  • gary
  • October 4, 2019
How to avoid bottlenecks in the client generator when measuring database performance with HammerDB
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  • Storage Performance

Paper: A Nine year study of filesystem and storage benchmarking

  • gary
  • May 6, 2019
A 2007 paper, that still has lots to say on the subject of benchmarking storage and filesystems. Primarily aimed at…
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