Tanel Põder (young) Tanel Põder (current) Hi, I am a consultant, advisor, entrepreneur and a long-time computer performance geek. I’m interested in the inner workings of complex systems and especially how all the pieces work together. That helps me build and fix enterprise data systems with less of trial and error and more of a systematic approach. 30 years ago, I started as a part-time C developer and then moved to Unix, Linux, Oracle RDBMS and various distributed systems on-premises and...| tanelpoder.com
TL;DR Modern disks are so fast that system performance bottleneck shifts to RAM access and CPU. With up to 64 cores, PCIe 4.0 and 8 memory channels, even a single-socket AMD ThreadRipper Pro workstation makes a hell of a powerful machine - if you do it right! Introduction In this post I’ll explain how I configured my AMD ThreadRipper Pro workstation with 10 PCIe 4.0 SSDs to achieve 11M IOPS with 4kB random reads and 66 GiB/s throughput with larger IOs - and what bottlenecks & issues I fixed...| tanelpoder.com