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The article mainly presents the tools the author uses to measure WSS and while I can see a few possibilities I'm curious if anyone can give some more examples o
by eikenberry 9y ago
The article mainly presents the tools the author uses to measure WSS and while I can see a few possibilities I'm curious if anyone can give some more examples of where measuring WSS would be useful?
- virtuabhi 9y agoSome scenarios come to mind - (1) help decide the memory allocated to the program to avoid IO (2) select the best page replacement policy (3) select the appropriate degree of multiprogramming.
- donaldihunter 9y agoCalculating scale limits or resource requirements for a given scale.
- brendangregg 9y agoAh, I should have mentioned why I was doing this: it's part of Linux KPTI patch analysis (Meltdown) that I've been doing, as the WSS is one factor in the performance loss experienced (due to TLB flushing).