Links 2021-9-2
- Brendan Gregg investigates slow large file uploads: On a 64g ram machine he finds that the operating system’s page cache is busted for big files the microservice is sometimes trying to upload to s3 (>100gb)
- Another one from Brendan tracking down a slack app crash bug in linux: Neat to see the exercise of him going through different hypotheses and then figuring out how to validate them. A few failures and then success! This is how it always is.