Transaction tracing mechanism of distributed heterogenous transactions having instrumented byte code with constant memory consumption and independent of instrumented method call depth
US9274919B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | Apr 25, 2012 |
| Grant date | Mar 1, 2016 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | May 27, 2033 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06F2201/87
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A system and method for tracing individual transactions on method call granularity is disclosed. The system uses instrumentation based transaction tracing mechanisms to enhance thread call stack sampling mechanisms by a) only sampling threads executing monitored transactions while execution is ongoing b) tagging sampled call stacks with a transaction id for correlation of sampled call stacks with instrumentation bases tracing data. The combination of instrumentation based tracing with thread call stack sampling reduces sampling generated overhead by only sampling relevant thread, and reduces instrumentation generated overhead because it allows reducing instrumentation.
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