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@tmgstevens coming back to this one: I don't see this long list of tuning options upstream, [over there](https://github.com/openmessaging/benchmark/blob/master/bin/benchmark-worker) it is just a quite simple `-Xms4G -Xmx4G -XX:+UseG1GC`. Maybe this is...

Ping @tmgstevens .

Thanks @tmgstevens . I didn't know the ansible actually just modiied the start script in-situ with a regex. Among other things, this means we'd better be careful that this `JVM_MEM`...

@wangtZJU It doesn't seem to help on most modern hardware, but it certainly _could_ for some hardware. Examples of hardware design/behaviors that cause this include: - Hardware with a high...

Kind of weird, looks like the earlier `dig` command failed (or at least the first line out ouptut was a failure) and we pass that on to the next command....

Using "kafka" as I guess this was added for kerberos support.

Looks like fail to install from s3 again.

I suspect these are duplicates of https://github.com/redpanda-data/redpanda/issues/18607. We are using curl here rather than requests, but the endpoint is the same and curl error 35 is an SSL-related error just...

@rpdevmp wrote: > Error message is: > ducktape.errors.TimeoutError: Redpanda service ip-172-31-6-14 failed to start within 20 sec ... but the error message from the stack in the top comment is:...

@rpdevmp - but are they disk spikes? If they fit the pattern of temporary blips in disk performance then we should still treat it as a spike, e.g., maybe relax...