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Blog posts tagged
"Performance"

Will French
29 June 2024

Maximizing CPU efficiency and energy savings with IntelⓇ QuickAssist Technology on Ubuntu 24.04

Cloud and server Article

In this post, we show that IntelⓇ QAT can be used in Ubuntu 24.04 LTS to offload compute intensive workloads, maximizing CPU efficiency and driving cost savings. ...

Chris Schnabel
27 March 2024

Profile workloads on x86-64-v3 to enable future performance gains

Ubuntu Article

Ubuntu 23.10 experimental image with x86-64-v3 instruction set now available on Azure Canonical is enabling enterprises to evaluate the performance of their most critical workloads in an experimental Ubuntu image on Azure compiled with x86-64-v3, which is a microarchitecture level that has the potential for performance gains. Developers c ...

Oliver Smith
13 December 2023

Performance engineering on Ubuntu leaps forward with frame pointers by default in Ubuntu 24.04 LTS

Cloud and server Article

Today Canonical is raising the bar for performance and observability by enabling frame pointers by default in Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. ...

Michael Hudson-Doyle
12 December 2023

Optimising Ubuntu performance on amd64 architecture

Ubuntu Article

Everyone wants the Linux distribution they are using to be fast. This is practically a content-free statement, of course: who would want their distro to be slow? But at the same time, what does it mean for your distribution to be fast? For example, Ubuntu 21.10 switched the default compression for packages to zstd, which ...

Igor Ljubuncic
17 March 2022

KDE snaps performance revving up

Ubuntu Article

Speed, or rather, responsiveness is an essential part of the software usage experience. This applies to every technology and domain, snaps included. Indeed, when it comes to snaps, the equation is a bit more complicated and slightly less straightforward because snaps are packaged as compressed, standalone applications and wrapped in a num ...

Igor Ljubuncic
8 October 2021

How to make snaps faster

Ubuntu Article

A great user experience is (or at least, should be) an integral part of any software that involves user interaction. On the desktop, this starts with the application launch, and continues through the session. The overall time to completion of tasks as well as interactive responsiveness are a core element in this journey. If you’re ...

Igor Ljubuncic
16 September 2021

Snap Performance Skunk Works – Ensuring speed and consistency for snaps

Ubuntu Article

Snaps are used on desktop machines, servers and IoT devices. However, it’s the first group that draws the most attention and scrutiny. Due to the graphic nature of desktop applications, users are often more attuned to potential problems and issues that may arise in the desktop space than with command-line tools or software running in ...

Ian Johnson
30 October 2020

Introducing etrace – a multi-purpose application profiling tool

Desktop Article

These days, the internal workings of Linux applications involve many different moving parts. Sometimes, it can be rather difficult to debug them when things go wrong or run slower than expected. Tracing an application’s execution is one way of understanding potential issues without diving into the source code. To this end, we wrote an app ...

Igor Ljubuncic
27 October 2020

Snap speed improvements with new compression algorithm!

Desktop Article

Security and performance are often mutually exclusive concepts. A great user experience is one that manages to blend the two in a way that does not compromise on robust, solid foundations of security on one hand, and a fast, responsive software interaction on the other. Snaps are self-contained applications, with layered security, and as ...

H Wilkins
19 June 2020

Making the MAAS machine list fast with React

Design Article

We have been transitioning the web interface for MAAS from AngularJS to React. One of the reasons for this is to make the interface faster. The main page with performance issues is the list of machines. This list needs to be fast at displaying a few hundred machines at a bare minimum. So what happens ...

Martin Wimpress
24 April 2020

What’s new in Ubuntu Desktop 20.04 LTS?

Desktop Article

Well, here it is! Ubuntu is the world’s most popular open-source desktop operating system, and we think this is our best release to date. Ubuntu 20.04 LTS is an enterprise-grade, secure, cost-effective operating system for organisations and home users. Before I summarise the changes in this release, let’s address something I’ve seen discu ...

Igor Ljubuncic
28 March 2019

Snap startup time improvements

Desktop Article

Several months ago, we shared an article titled I have a need, a need for snap that detailed the application performance results of snaps compared to their classic repo counterparts. We tested GIMP and VLC on both Ubuntu and Fedora, with some rather interesting findings. The one aspect of the application usage sequence we did ...

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