I have 4 queues under the root queue with the following configuration. |-------------|-----------------|---------------------|-------------------| | Queue Name | Capacity (in %) | Max Capacity (in...

I want to be able to log FFMPEG processes because I am trying to work out how long a minute of video takes to convert to help with capacity planning of my video encoding server. How do I enable log...

While estimating straight row and table sizes are fairly simple math, we find it challenging to guess just how much space each index will occupy (for a given table size). What areas can we learn to...

Everything I've read and experienced ( Tornado based apps ) leads me to believe that ePoll is a natural replacement for Select and Poll based networking, especially with Twisted. Which makes me par...

I often have a couple different schema's in mind when starting project. After making rough guesses I realize that some are less optimized for growth or storage space than others. Obviously, the siz...

I just read the book The Art of Capacity planning (BTW, I liked it), and in it the author explains how important is measuring your services, finding out your ceilings, forecasting your needs,...

I'm doing some performance tuning and capacity planning for a low-latency application and have the following question: What is the theoretical minimum round-trip time for a packet sent between a h...

After being burnt several times on things that seemed "obviously fast enough" but sucked performance-wise under load, I'm starting to think that my "gut feeling" might be not enough when doing capa...

I'm setting up a technical debt register at The Office and want to make it a fairly comprehensive tool. What are the key pieces of information that we should be recording?

I am often asked to perform sizing and capacity planning for our clients. When our clients buy our products (basically J2EE web applications), they often ask what hardware they will need to run tho...

How much traffic can one web server handle? What's the best way to see if we're beyond that? I have an ASP.Net application that has a couple hundred users. Aspects of it are fairly processor inten...