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Visualizing System Latency
ChelleChelle writes "Latency has a direct impact on performance — thus, in order to identify performance issues it is absolutely essential to understand latency. With the introduction of DTrace it is now possible to measure latency at arbitrary points; the problem, however, is how to visually present this data in an effective manner. Toward this end, heat maps can be a powerful tool. When I/O latency is presented as a visual heat map, some intriguing and beautiful patterns can emerge. These patterns provide insight into how a system is actually performing and what kinds of latency end-user applications experience."
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mapping latency in a system using colored maps representing throughput has been a tool of db and network sysadmins for many many MANY years.
I hope beutiful isn't commonplace...
New management?
Shameless plug for writing optimized programs: Pyke. I'm tentatively learning this framework: myself.
Shh.
How bout you RTFA before you make you're smartass comments, since yours is almost a direct fucking quote from it. However, this isn't about measuring network latency, it's about disk latency, something that until recently was extraordinarily hard to measure.
I guess shouting at systems to make them start working has the opposite effect. Who knew a server was so emotional.
"I use a Mac because I'm just better than you are."
You're = your in this case. Other than that, nice comment.
Have you heard about SoylentNews?
Sorry, should have mentioned why this comment should be in this story. The flip side of measurement of your systems latency to improve performance is to optimize your program as well as the system. Pyke is a meta-programming framework and in effect caches your programs structure and variables dramatically improving performance. Which is latency.
Shh.
how bout i did read the fucking article? how about i never said it was about network latency? how about measuring disk latency is no different than measuring ANY latency? how about db latency using optimized table handlers ends up becoming exactly a problem of disk latency?
Informative article, all on one page, not chock full of ads. Now excuse me while I stock my bunker.
Did anyone else notice that the article has no actual information in it? Also, the graphs are impenetrable until you have read tons of text (bad sign!).
Also, "Some of the heat maps, such as the rainbow pterodactyl, are also interesting examples of how deep and beautiful a simple visualization can be." translation: "I like pretty graphs and have found they can substitute for actual information."
However, this isn't about measuring network latency, it's about disk latency, something that until recently was extraordinarily hard to measure.
Not on my planet. Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it. I've been making my living doing mostly performance work for fifteen years, including the production of countless graphs, animations, 3d visualizations, and other visual (and sonic) aids of metrics such as disk latency. And I'm not talking mrtg, and other crude views. Measuring the past is one thing, but predicting the future is much more interesting.
Disk latency is just a tiny part of a much larger picture. The author of TFA is doing good work, and I fully support his writing about it, developing tools, etc. But it is nothing new and should not be represented as such. Except the bit about yelling at disk drives. That's very cool. That dude needs to be recognized for his uncanny ability to yell, and intimidate hardware. I would support funding further research into whether extreme profanity is of any additional benefit. That's an open source project I would get involved in!
Back in the day, working at an instrumentation company as a mechanical guy, I stopped to watch the senior electronic design engineer who was doing something that looked interesting. He had an old persistence-type storage oscilloscope hooked up to the rack-mount computer for a new instrument system and was watching the scope display, which was producing some fascinating patterns. Knowing f'all about this stuff but intrigued, I asked him to explain what was happening. He explained (and I'll butcher the explanation with layman's terms) that he was using d/a converters on the high and low bytes of the program address? to drive the x and y axes of the scope, and watching to see where, in the software, that the processor was spending much of it's time. He pointed to a hot spot on the scope display and said that this was where he would concentrate on optimizing his code. Fwiw, I thought that was pretty cool.
After reading the article, this idea of a "heat map" or frequency distribution mapping (of sorts) can (sort of) be summed in:
A particular advantage of heat-map visualization is the ability to see outliers.
I find this particularly interesting as this graphically now allows a way to "filter" the real outlier out from a sea of data. Also,
Instead of a random distribution, latency is grouped together at various levels that rise and fall over time, producing lines in a pattern that became known as the icy lake. This was unexpected, especially considering the simplicity of the workload.
And concluding the section on what they dub as the "icy lake"...
To summarize what we know about the icy lake: lines come from single disks, and disk pairs cause increasing and decreasing latency. The actual reason for the latency difference over time that seeds this pattern has not been pinpointed; what causes the rate of increase/decrease to change (change in slope seen in figure 5) is also unknown; and, the higher latency line seen in the single-disk pool (figure 4) is also not yet understood. Visualizing latency in this way clearly poses more questions than it provides answers.
Without actually seeing the data or knowing the specifics of latency, from a pure mathematical standpoint I wonder what would result if one treated the set of numbers (from each disk) as a random sequence, identifying outliers (as they did using this heat model)...then graphically mapping those using a "chaos game theory algorithm". By using a graph to statistically analyze/visualize the "outliers", perhaps more could be revealed on the "randomness" of how one disk or a pair of disks reacts relating to the whole system.
I do not claim to know much in this area at all and this is merely speculation on how the set of numbers "randomness" may be approached...
We should start a new Slashdot and return control to the geeks. It actually wouldn't be that hard to get some users to
Of course nobody credits Sun for Dtrace in the article...ugh
Woah, Michael. It's OK. It's just slashdot.
Just kick back with a couple of these Ancient-New-World-Beers and chill out man...
Know why you got that 0 next to your name? I could mod you down to oblivion but I think my beer comment is funnier. What's better is since I'm AC I still can.
...it's a shame that instrumentation of things such as EMC's PowerPath are a little painful. I guess there will always be gaps where vendor meets vendor and closed source meets open source, but it remains rather complex to analyse what's happening in Solaris with PowerPath and some Storage Foundation stirred in for good measure. Impossible? No...but maybe we'd all benefit from a little more interoperabilty?
It's a great article though - Brendan's a DTrace authority is impressive.
something that until recently was extraordinarily hard to measure.
Really?
Device: rrqm/s wrqm/s r/s w/s rMB/s wMB/s avgrq-sz avgqu-sz await svctm %util
hda 0.00 0.00 114.85 0.00 0.45 0.00 8.00 0.73 6.28 6.34 72.87
Where await and svctm are average wait (milliseconds) for the disk & queue and service time for the disk.
Or do you mean something else?
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in a simple microcontroller setup
I really like ACM Queue, which regularly prints articles for practitioners about things which both we and our more academic colleagues care.
I recommend it, and on rare occasions, contribute.
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Summary of the article: The graphs are pretty cool, but we do not understand what they tell us.
Thats not quite what I would call effective...
The data presented in the article are actually quite a bit more subtle and interesting than the summary data you've got there. It's probably be impossible to notice the effects of the "icy lake" phenomenon they describe with average summary data like that, or to appreciate the effect of shouting. (Most IO's happen relatively quickly during the shouting, so the average doesn't skew up very high. What's remarkable about the shouting is the sudden burst of outliers indicating a few accesses with terrible performance.)
Take, for example, AT&T Network performance: /. article)
Current: Snail
Expected, after customers leave in droves over data plan changes: Snail on meth (see yesterday
Expected, once AT&T upgrades equipment: Sloth on vallium
Any insufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from technology.
Heat kinda makes me slow too...
Crimey! Slashdot needs a "Hide all comments from UIDs >1M"
"When I am king, you will be first against the wall..."
the summary data you've got there
Funny. I recall the command syntax for that one lets you setup intervals per second. That would be the "black foot" that gets you out of the "icy lake" phenomenon you describe.
"When I am king, you will be first against the wall..."
i agree that your children will probably be idiots not worth listening to...
How about "Hide all comments where $UID > $MINE " ?
And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
John 8:32(King James Version)
You're an interesting man, Michael. How's Rachel ? And the dogs ? I do hope they don't suffer from your anger issues. You might want to consider not putting quite as much about yourself on the internet, if you're gonna be doing the rabies thing at people; although I'd suggest a better alternative would be to get rabies shots.
then i call you out on it USING THE SAME PHRASING YOU USED, and then you attack that... YOU WERE WRONG. you are probably wrong more than you are right, which has helped you develop this accusatory defense mechanism. i do have a wife. i do have dogs. you might want to consider putting a little more about yourself on the internet... perhaps then someone could find you and educate you, monkey.
you are NOTHING.
Hmm. It appears you have a hard time grasping the concept of "Anonymous Coward".
"Anonymous Coward", dear smartest pencil, isn't an actual person. It's just another name for an anonymous poster. I'm not the Anonymous Coward you first exploded at, nor are either of us the one you exploded at second, and so on.
I happen to be the one you just replied to, but that's just because you amuse me and I'm actually bothering to track that post for a few days.
A lot of us may be NOTHING, but I guess that makes us mostly the same as what you've got behind the eyes, monkey. Have an education that doesn't involve wether single quotes are more efficient than double quotes in PHP.
so your point is, anonymous posters should be ignored... and yet you yourself still post anonymously.
you can't buy that kind of stupid.
That wouldn't leave me with very many people to talk to ;)
Neh. My point was that Mr Kristopeit apparently didn't grasp that there was a difference between us Anonymous Cowards, and I suspect that an overdose of AC comments at him might be the cause of his outbursts.
He's stopped replying, too, so I guess he got it. Well, either that or he had a heart attack from all the excitement.
then you sweep in like a donkey with claims that that didn't just happen...
you are the worst kind of stupid.
if i respond to an AC, and an AC responds back, i will assume it was the original AC until told otherwise. the burden of proof is not on my shoulders... i've already proven i'm the same person. you can't prove you aren't the same AC.
you are NOTHING.
And here I was, about to delete my bookmark to this. You truly are an endless source of amusement.
There's thousands, potentially millions of ACs, and you assume that the same guy that launches a one-off comment will keep coming back to every comment he makes to see if you've answered? Dude, the only reason I've bookmarked this is that your incredibly arrogant attitude provides me a measure of amusement. I really couldn't be bothered to bookmark and check every anonymous comment I make.
You appear to severely overestimate your own importance. Carry on entertaining me, minion.
you are NOTHING.
One small sentence and your key signature ? How disappointing. I guess your batteries are running down, by now - too much screaming will make you hoarse.
Shame, I'll have to find another source of amusement now.
What a depressingly stupid machine.
ur mums face works for me