Watching nginx upstreams with collectd | Be the signal
Thursday, July 23rd, 2009tells how to monitor nginx by tailing it’s logs using collectd. ( same can also be done with munin)
Archive for the 'performance' Category
A Comparison of Open Source Search Engines « zooie’s blog
Tuesday, July 7th, 2009this is not a strict benchmark, but rather a broad review. Results should be taken as a starting point in research, not as benchmark results.
[RUS] PostgreSQL vs MySQL
Wednesday, June 10th, 2009test uses db schema and usage pattern from popular blog-hosting site. Benchmark uses optimized queries
TCP Tuning Guide [Office of Science, DOE, US GOV]
Friday, May 15th, 2009Excellent site provides both theoretical background and practical recommendation for the situation when you need to push limits of TCP links using regular OS and commodity hardware. Especially useful if you need to do it via long-haul fast TCP link,…
Introducing NetBSD 5.0
Friday, May 8th, 2009BSD 5.0 release presentation, includes benchmarks: F10 vs FreeBSD 7.x vs NetBSD 4.0 and 5.0 (also see http://lwn.net/Articles/330909/ )
Best hardware for maximum throughput and PPS performance | Quagga | Users
Saturday, April 25th, 2009email threads that provides some pieces of info about linux routing performance (from 2008 )
Linux Software Router : Data Plane Optimization and Performance …
Saturday, April 25th, 2009in-depth linux routing performance evaluation, including code profiling, execution path analysis, etc
Linux as IP Router [vaytta marketing paper, benchmarks are at the end]
Saturday, April 25th, 2009Paper from vayatta with some benchmarks that shows raw ip forwarding performance with various packet sizes and % of packet losses. Basically 2.8 Intel celeron + 1G broadcom (tg3) cards can deliver ~150Mbps on 64b packets limited by CPU
SourceForge.net: BenchmarkSQL
Friday, February 20th, 2009tool for testing database performance, jdbc-based, supports a lot of different DBs
Benchmarking Databases I. Volatile Storage. – Pon un sol en tu vida
Friday, February 20th, 2009PostgreSQL, MySQL and Oracle are compared using reasonable hardware setup and TPC-C like test with BenchmarkSQL tool (JDBC ) . This post will probably disappear soon as the author clearly violates oracle license that does not permit publishing benchma…