Posts Tagged ‘ benchmark ’

Presentation to RTP OpenSolaris group on Filebench.

January 15, 2010
By gary

On Janurary 5th 2010 I gave a short presentation on the FileBench workload modeling tool to the RTP OpenSolaris group. Click on the slide to advance. The “Slides” link will take you to an HTML version. Slides
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Benchmarking Blunders and Things That Go Bump in the Night

October 9, 2009
By gary

A 2004 paper from Neil Gunther which essentially discusses the pitfalls of relying on observed date without applying the known performance laws (most notably little’s law) to the problem at hand. PDF The original link to arXiv.org (whatever that is)
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Sorting TPC-H lineitem table.

August 19, 2008
By gary

Sometimes it is useful to sort the lineitem table, in the order that Query-6 will read the data back. Query-6 looks like so :- set timing on; select sum(l_extendedprice * l_discount) as revenue from lineitem where l_shipdate >= to_date( '1995-01-01', 'YYYY-MM-DD') and l_shipdate < add_months(to_date( '1995-01-01', 'YYYY-MM-DD'), 12) and l_discount between 0.07 - 0.01 and 0.07 + 0.01 and l_quantity < 25; exit; and...
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