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Greg Wilson (gvwilson@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 17-Dec-2024 21:46:27 JST Greg Wilson

Barba Roque et al 2024: "Unveiling the Energy Vampires: A Methodology for Debugging Software Energy Consumption" https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.10063 Presents an energy debugging methodology for identifying and isolating energy consumption hotspots in software systems. One finding: Redis uses 20% more power on Alpine than Ubuntu in some cases because of a difference in different C library implementations of memcpy. #nwit
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  Unveiling the Energy Vampires: A Methodology for Debugging Software Energy Consumption
  
  Energy consumption in software systems is becoming increasingly important, especially in large-scale deployments. However, debugging energy-related issues remains challenging due to the lack of specialized tools. This paper presents an energy debugging methodology for identifying and isolating energy consumption hotspots in software systems. We demonstrate the methodology's effectiveness through a case study of Redis, a popular in-memory database. Our analysis reveals significant energy consumption differences between Alpine and Ubuntu distributions, with Alpine consuming up to 20.2% more power in certain operations. We trace this difference to the implementation of the memcpy function in different C standard libraries (musl vs. glibc). By isolating and benchmarking memcpy, we confirm it as the primary cause of the energy discrepancy. Our findings highlight the importance of considering energy efficiency in software dependencies and demonstrate the capability to assist developers in identifying and addressing energy-related issues. This work contributes to the growing field of sustainable software engineering by providing a systematic approach to energy debugging and using it to unveil unexpected energy behaviors in Alpine.
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  Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 17-Dec-2024 22:49:54 JST Rich Felker
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  @gvwilson I suppose this should motivate pursuing my longterm plan for uarch-tuned memcpy middles..
  
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