A key value storage engine. This runs with seven different workloads in combinations of reading and writing.. Also looks like a mixture of how many processes are running and overall usage of the CPU cores.

Topdown profile shows a surprising amount of frontend stalls and not as many backend stalls as I expected.

AMD metrics show now much floating point and a reasonable number of branches.

elapsed              2070.821
on_cpu               0.423          # 6.77 / 16 cores
utime                9881.316
stime                4127.971
nvcsw                138393616      # 88.21%
nivcsw               18505237       # 11.79%
inblock              224            # 0.11/sec
onblock              127042640      # 61348.93/sec
cpu-clock            13909200672659 # 13909.201 seconds
task-clock           13958994870372 # 13958.995 seconds
page faults          35140921       # 2517.439/sec
context switches     156908891      # 11240.701/sec
cpu migrations       9528475        # 682.605/sec
major page faults    22             # 0.002/sec
minor page faults    35140899       # 2517.438/sec
alignment faults     0              # 0.000/sec
emulation faults     0              # 0.000/sec
branches             10714480389338 # 191.064 branches per 1000 inst
branch misses        320919868482   # 3.00% branch miss
conditional          5808156968035  # 103.573 conditional branches per 1000 inst
indirect             1135687733221  # 20.252 indirect branches per 1000 inst
cpu-cycles           51740491010480 # 2.51 GHz
instructions         55743124682792 # 1.08 IPC
slots                102725447237646 #
retiring             20115152933513 # 19.6% (24.2%)
-- ucode             116943868313   #     0.1%
-- fastpath          19998209065200 #    19.5%
frontend             37532525154712 # 36.5% (45.1%)
-- latency           28895131316592 #    28.1%
-- bandwidth         8637393838120  #     8.4%
backend              24911429404191 # 24.3% (29.9%)
-- cpu               3128438115707  #     3.0%
-- memory            21782991288484 #    21.2%
speculation          717345821128   #  0.7% ( 0.9%)
-- branch mispredict 708891072216   #     0.7%
-- pipeline restart  8454748912     #     0.0%
smt-contention       19437881832850 # 18.9% ( 0.0%)
cpu-cycles           51919455128020 # 2.40 GHz
instructions         55867230617986 # 1.08 IPC
instructions         18538442010060 # 40.327 l2 access per 1000 inst
l2 hit from l1       685936510947   # 11.53% l2 miss
l2 miss from l1      47139312954    #
l2 hit from l2 pf    22599446135    #
l3 hit from l2 pf    25035223752    #
l3 miss from l2 pf   14036334289    #
instructions         18523728810796 # 25.198 float per 1000 inst
float 512            129            # 0.000 AVX-512 per 1000 inst
float 256            628            # 0.000 AVX-256 per 1000 inst
float 128            466765911840   # 25.198 AVX-128 per 1000 inst
float MMX            0              # 0.000 MMX per 1000 inst
float scalar         0              # 0.000 scalar per 1000 inst

Intel metrics with lower elapsed time overall and more cores.

elapsed              1867.083
on_cpu               0.787          # 12.59 / 16 cores
utime                19333.595
stime                4180.095
nvcsw                20487307       # 38.34%
nivcsw               32952605       # 61.66%
inblock              25896          # 13.87/sec
onblock              150144056      # 80416.39/sec
cpu-clock            23502613686774 # 23502.614 seconds
task-clock           23508495529544 # 23508.496 seconds
page faults          40269628       # 1712.982/sec
context switches     53448978       # 2273.603/sec
cpu migrations       1064630        # 45.287/sec
major page faults    171            # 0.007/sec
minor page faults    40269457       # 1712.975/sec
alignment faults     0              # 0.000/sec
emulation faults     0              # 0.000/sec
branches             14771616888164 # 181.793 branches per 1000 inst
branch misses        61993896497    # 0.42% branch miss
conditional          14771616978244 # 181.793 conditional branches per 1000 inst
indirect             5085829414981  # 62.591 indirect branches per 1000 inst
slots                125964273862484 #
retiring             51099357052715 # 40.6% (40.6%)
-- ucode             6050258115125  #     4.8%
-- fastpath          45049098937590 #    35.8%
frontend             41642723677884 # 33.1% (33.1%)
-- latency           17491249620450 #    13.9%
-- bandwidth         24151474057434 #    19.2%
backend              28925817997092 # 23.0% (23.0%)
-- cpu               18472992005227 #    14.7%
-- memory            10452825991865 #     8.3%
speculation          4353259119865  #  3.5% ( 3.5%)
-- branch mispredict 3808100269661  #     3.0%
-- pipeline restart  545158850204   #     0.4%
smt-contention       0              #  0.0% ( 0.0%)
cpu-cycles           79398869975356 # 2.33 GHz
instructions         96444141910483 # 1.21 IPC
l2 access            2579729494934  # 51.631 l2 access per 1000 inst
l2 miss              450249142737   # 17.45% l2 miss

Process overview, looks like we lost track of some.

2184 processes
	1522 db_bench             327262.01 141787.39
	168 speedb:low           78551.12 26881.76
	 21 speedb:high           9818.89  3360.24
	 68 clinfo                  17.85     5.99
	 38 vulkaninfo               0.74     1.51
	  6 glxinfo:gdrv0            0.12     0.07
	  6 php                      0.10     0.28
	  4 vulkani:disk$0           0.08     0.15
	  2 glxinfo                  0.06     0.03
	  2 glxinfo:cs0              0.06     0.03
	  2 glxinfo:disk$0           0.06     0.03
	  2 glxinfo:sh0              0.06     0.03
	  2 glxinfo:shlo0            0.06     0.03
	  6 clang                    0.04     0.08
	  2 llvmpipe-0               0.04     0.08
	  2 llvmpipe-1               0.04     0.08
	  2 llvmpipe-10              0.04     0.08
	  2 llvmpipe-11              0.04     0.08
	  2 llvmpipe-12              0.04     0.08
	  2 llvmpipe-13              0.04     0.08
	  2 llvmpipe-14              0.04     0.08
	  2 llvmpipe-15              0.04     0.08
	  2 llvmpipe-2               0.04     0.08
	  2 llvmpipe-3               0.04     0.08
	  2 llvmpipe-4               0.04     0.08
	  2 llvmpipe-5               0.04     0.08
	  2 llvmpipe-6               0.04     0.08
	  2 llvmpipe-7               0.04     0.08
	  2 llvmpipe-8               0.04     0.08
	  2 llvmpipe-9               0.04     0.08
	 42 rm                       0.00     0.21
	  3 rocminfo                 0.00     0.03
	  1 lspci                    0.00     0.02
	  1 ps                       0.00     0.01
	 94 sh                       0.00     0.00
	 21 speedb                   0.00     0.00
	 13 gcc                      0.00     0.00
	 10 gsettings                0.00     0.00
	  8 stat                     0.00     0.00
	  8 systemd-detect-          0.00     0.00
	  6 llvm-link                0.00     0.00
	  5 phoronix-test-s          0.00     0.00
	  4 gmain                    0.00     0.00
	  2 cc                       0.00     0.00
	  2 dconf worker             0.00     0.00
	  2 lscpu                    0.00     0.00
	  2 uname                    0.00     0.00
	  2 which                    0.00     0.00
	  2 xset                     0.00     0.00
	  1 date                     0.00     0.00
	  1 dirname                  0.00     0.00
	  1 dmesg                    0.00     0.00
	  1 dmidecode                0.00     0.00
	  1 grep                     0.00     0.00
	  1 ifconfig                 0.00     0.00
	  1 ip                       0.00     0.00
	  1 lsmod                    0.00     0.00
	  1 mktemp                   0.00     0.00
	  1 qdbus                    0.00     0.00
	  1 readlink                 0.00     0.00
	  1 realpath                 0.00     0.00
	  1 sed                      0.00     0.00
	  1 sort                     0.00     0.00
	  1 stty                     0.00     0.00
	  1 systemctl                0.00     0.00
	  1 template.sh              0.00     0.00
	  1 wc                       0.00     0.00
	  1 xrandr                   0.00     0.00
56 processes running
103 maximum processes

Not all of it, but shows many nested invocations of db_bench

      3671795) speedb           cpu=0 start=5.57  finish=65.87
        3671796) rm               cpu=1 start=5.58  finish=5.58 
        3671797) db_bench         cpu=12 start=5.58  finish=65.85
          3671798) db_bench         cpu=5 start=5.58  finish=5.59 
          3671799) speedb:low       cpu=5 start=5.58  finish=65.84
          3671800) speedb:low       cpu=7 start=5.58  finish=65.84
          3671801) speedb:low       cpu=11 start=5.59  finish=65.84
          3671802) speedb:low       cpu=2 start=5.59  finish=65.84
          3671803) speedb:low       cpu=0 start=5.59  finish=65.84
          3671804) speedb:low       cpu=6 start=5.59  finish=65.84
          3671805) speedb:low       cpu=13 start=5.59  finish=65.84
          3671806) speedb:low       cpu=1 start=5.59  finish=65.84
          3671807) speedb:high      cpu=2 start=5.59  finish=65.85
          3671808) db_bench         cpu=11 start=5.59  finish=65.84
          3671809) db_bench         cpu=10 start=5.59  finish=5.69 
          3671810) db_bench         cpu=4 start=5.68  finish=5.69 
          3671811) db_bench         cpu=9 start=5.68  finish=5.68 
          3671812) db_bench         cpu=11 start=5.68  finish=5.68 
          3671813) db_bench         cpu=15 start=5.68  finish=5.68 
          3671814) db_bench         cpu=5 start=5.68  finish=5.68 
          3671815) db_bench         cpu=10 start=5.68  finish=5.68 
          3671816) db_bench         cpu=4 start=5.68  finish=5.68 
          3671817) db_bench         cpu=11 start=5.68  finish=5.68 
          3671818) db_bench         cpu=3 start=5.68  finish=5.68 
          3671819) db_bench         cpu=0 start=5.68  finish=5.68 
          3671820) db_bench         cpu=14 start=5.68  finish=5.68 
          3671821) db_bench         cpu=10 start=5.68  finish=5.68 
          3671822) ?? cpu=0 start=5.68  finish=0.00 
          3671823) db_bench         cpu=14 start=5.68  finish=5.68 
          3671824) db_bench         cpu=10 start=5.68  finish=5.68 
          3671825) ?? cpu=0 start=5.68  finish=0.00 
          3671826) db_bench         cpu=14 start=5.69  finish=5.69 
          3671827) db_bench         cpu=12 start=5.71  finish=5.81 
          3671828) db_bench         cpu=4 start=5.80  finish=6.57 
          3671829) db_bench         cpu=2 start=5.80  finish=5.80 
          3671830) db_bench         cpu=14 start=5.80  finish=5.80 
          3671831) db_bench         cpu=11 start=5.80  finish=5.80 
          3671832) db_bench         cpu=5 start=5.80  finish=5.80 
          3671833) db_bench         cpu=12 start=5.80  finish=5.80 
          3671834) db_bench         cpu=1 start=5.80  finish=5.80 
          3671835) db_bench         cpu=11 start=5.80  finish=5.80 
          3671836) ?? cpu=0 start=5.80  finish=0.00 
          3671837) db_bench         cpu=14 start=5.80  finish=5.80 
          3671838) db_bench         cpu=11 start=5.80  finish=5.80 
          3671839) db_bench         cpu=0 start=5.80  finish=5.80 
          3671840) db_bench         cpu=7 start=5.80  finish=5.80 
          3671841) db_bench         cpu=0 start=5.80  finish=5.80 
          3671842) db_bench         cpu=0 start=5.80  finish=5.80 
          3671843) db_bench         cpu=12 start=5.81  finish=5.81 
          3671844) db_bench         cpu=6 start=5.81  finish=65.82
          3671845) db_bench         cpu=6 start=5.81  finish=65.82
            3671861) db_bench         cpu=13 start=6.57  finish=7.30 
            3671862) db_bench         cpu=14 start=7.30  finish=8.06 
            3671870) db_bench         cpu=5 start=13.35 finish=14.07
            3671891) db_bench         cpu=5 start=29.63 finish=30.38
            3671904) db_bench         cpu=5 start=39.66 finish=40.50
            3671917) db_bench         cpu=15 start=49.87 finish=50.67
          3671846) db_bench         cpu=10 start=5.81  finish=65.82
            3671865) db_bench         cpu=5 start=9.58  finish=10.30
            3671869) db_bench         cpu=8 start=12.60 finish=13.35
            3671873) db_bench         cpu=11 start=15.65 finish=16.45
            3671898) db_bench         cpu=5 start=35.10 finish=35.81
            3671901) db_bench         cpu=12 start=37.40 finish=38.23
            3671919) db_bench         cpu=5 start=51.38 finish=52.08
            3671935) db_bench         cpu=8 start=63.77 finish=64.50
          3671847) db_bench         cpu=9 start=5.81  finish=65.82
            3671866) db_bench         cpu=9 start=10.30 finish=11.04
            3671908) db_bench         cpu=5 start=42.80 finish=43.64
            3671909) db_bench         cpu=5 start=43.64 finish=44.45
          3671848) db_bench         cpu=8 start=5.81  finish=65.82
            3671880) db_bench         cpu=10 start=20.93 finish=21.79
            3671895) db_bench         cpu=4 start=32.75 finish=33.48
            3671896) db_bench         cpu=12 start=33.48 finish=34.31
            3671926) db_bench         cpu=10 start=56.84 finish=57.57
            3671933) db_bench         cpu=1 start=62.20 finish=63.03
          3671849) db_bench         cpu=5 start=5.81  finish=65.82
            3671874) db_bench         cpu=4 start=16.45 finish=17.14
            3671889) db_bench         cpu=8 start=28.09 finish=28.87
            3671903) db_bench         cpu=5 start=38.94 finish=39.66
            3671916) db_bench         cpu=6 start=49.02 finish=49.87