Somebody asked me the other day, “How much does the ElectricAccelerator filesystem cache reduce I/O load on my build host?” This is an interesting question, because in some cases, the impact of Accelerator caching is a big part of the performance benefit. Consider the case of ClearCase dynamic views, which have notoriously bad performance, particularly [Read More →]

ElectricAccelerator agent metrics provide a tremendous amount of data that you can use to analyze and improve the performance of your builds. Last time we saw how to collect the metrics and we explored the data presented in the Overall time usage section. This time, we’ll look at the data in the Usage records section.

Welcome to the Electric Cloud Blog! My name is Eric Melski, and I’m a Senior Software Engineer at Electric Cloud (employee #1, by a whisker). I’ve worked on every component of ElectricAccelerator, and I’m now Technical Lead for the product. I’m also the guy behind ElectricInsight. In this and future posts, I will take you [Read More →]