Continuous computer performance measurement tool that reduces operating system produced performance data for logging into global, process, and workload files
US5067107A · kind A · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Nov 5, 1988 |
| Grant date | Nov 19, 1991 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Nov 5, 2008 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06F11/3409
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A performance and measurement system for a computing system is presented. Performance data produced by the computing system is collected and reduced before being logged. Once the data is logged, the data may be transported to a workstation and accessed by a user. In the preferred embodiment, the collected and reduced data is logged into three files. The first file is a global data file into which is logged information about the computing system as a whole. The second file is a process data file into which is logged information about selected processes. The third file is a workload data file into which is logged information about classes of processes. Information about processes are logged into the process data file when a process does something "interesting" during a specified interval. For example, a process may be considered to have done something interesting when the process is started, is terminated or uses a predetermined amount of a computing system resource during the specified interval.
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