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Stadia’s Hidden Limitation: Video Encoding

Tyson O'Ham — Mon, 24 Jun 2019 01:12:37 +0000

There’s been a lot of speculation in the press about the bandwidth and connection requirements of Stadia, Google's upcoming game streaming service. Criticisms usually arrive at metered connections or bad infrastructure in rural areas for key talking points. There’s also been some discussion of video quality and latency built into systems like Stadia, but surprisingly, [...]

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CONFIG_HZ: How does it affect KVM?

Ryan El Kochta — Wed, 01 Aug 2018 00:18:24 +0000

Since the release of version 2.6.13 in August 2005, the Linux kernel has support for adjusting the frequency of the timer interrupt via the CONFIG_HZ compile-time option. This setting can have a considerable impact on overall system latency and throughput in certain scenarios. In this article, its impact on KVM will be explored. See Also: [...]

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Benchmark Almost Any 3D App On Linux With Bugle

Tyson O'Ham — Fri, 27 Jul 2018 00:16:02 +0000

Linux Gaming and 3d accelerated productivity have come a long way in the past few years. Steam and GoG host thousands of Linux native titles, and things like computer vision and deep learning are mainstays for Linux GPGPU. Practically every render farm runs it, and serious commercial software like Nuke, Davinci Resolve, and Autodesk Maya [...]

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CPU Pinning Benchmarks

Blake Lee — Tue, 30 Jan 2018 02:56:02 +0000

Everyone wants to get the best performance out of their virtual machine. There is a lot of talk about CPU Pinning and the performance gains that come along with it. These benchmarks are to give you an idea of the performance changes you can expect from various setups people may recommend. Read also: Meltdown Patch [...]

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Meltdown Patch Performance — Benchmarks and Review

Ryan El Kochta — Mon, 22 Jan 2018 17:08:38 +0000

The computing community is full of concern for the Meltdown vulnerability. Page-Table Isolation is the name of the patch. Many workloads can see a performance hit. How is GPU Passthrough affected? These benchmarks will attempt to show this. An Overview Meltdown is an architectural vulnerability in Intel and certain ARM CPUs. It allows an attacker [...]

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