Today I read The Surprising Impact of Medium-Size Texts on PostgreSQL Performance which popped up on reddit.
Tag Archives: performance
DRI3
Today I was reading How to Install The Latest AMD Radeon Drivers on Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic Beaver Linux wherein I read that “[enabling] DRI3 will increase graphical performance with the AMDGPU drivers”. You can read about DRI3 but the bottom line was to add the following to your /etc/X11/xorg.conf file:
Section "Device" Identifier "AMDGPU" Driver "amdgpu" Option "AccelMethod" "glamor" Option "DRI" "3" EndSection
mdadm bitmap removal
I’m not certain, but I think the write-intent bitmap on my RAID5 array was slowing down my system without any real advantage. So I deleted it, like this:
# mdadm --grow --bitmap=none /dev/md0
Monitoring NetBeans
Today I learned you can watch the NetBeans memory utilisation by: View -> Toolbars -> Performance.
Apache Performance Tuning
Reading about Apache Performance Tuning. Don’t get the feeling like I’ve learned any tricks that will make much difference.
Postfix Performance Tuning
Found this article on Postfix Performance Tuning today. I’d like to find some time to read the whole thing.