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So you use a GC and have occasional CPU usage spikes. You correctly identify the cause. You then use "unsafe" code to go behind the GC's back and build some st

So you use a GC and have occasional CPU usage spikes. You correctly identify the cause. You then use "unsafe" code to go behind the GC's back and build some stuff which probably has crash bugs or worse, and by your analysis solves a problem which was not significant. I shouldn't be surprised. The red flag was flying as soon as IOP was used in singular form. Input/Output Operations Per.

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zackelan 9y ago
> I shouldn't be surprised. The red flag was flying as soon as IOP was used in singular form. > Input/Output Per. IOPS can also be "I/O operations per second" and in that context "1 IOP" is a meaningful quantity. Particularly when AWS and other cloud providers sell capacity in units of IOPS: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/ebs-io-characteristics.html https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/ebs-io-c...