From Anandtech: 3D XPoint has a lot to chew on. There hasn’t been an announcement this big in the memory industry since the invention of NAND in 1989 and while DRAM and NAND have improved and scaled a […]

This post is an addendum to my previous post, I hope that it answers some questions that might have popped up in readers heads whilst going through the last post: Q: Would affinitizing connections to A […]

One of my missions of late has been to obtain some time on a “Big box” in order to see how certain spinlocks behave under pressure, despite my best efforts I am not experiencing much […]

We are at the greatest inflection point in storage since the inception of the beast pictured below, the worlds first commercial hard drive in the form of the IBM RAMAC. I am of course speaking […]

This post will cover how to navigate the call stack in a trace captured using windows performance toolkit (WPT), firstly let me mention something prevalent across just about all event based profiling tools . . . Sampling As […]