Performance visualization of a distributed system: a case study

Author

Jakiela, Hank

Author_Institution

Digital Equipment Corp., USA

Volume

28

Issue

11

fYear

1995

fDate

11/1/1995 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

30

Lastpage

36

Abstract

The case study describes the use of a simple visualization technique to help resolve difficult performance problems in a large distributed system. The event trace data used was collected on a large distributed system built to run a benchmark of a complex securities trading application. The system was designed to handle several hundred transactions per second with subsecond response times. The complete benchmark workload consisted of several different types of transactions. For simplicity, the examples show only two types of transactions, representing about half the total workload

Keywords

data visualisation; distributed processing; financial data processing; performance evaluation; securities trading; software performance evaluation; transaction processing; benchmark; complex securities trading application; event trace data; large distributed system; performance problem solving; performance visualization; subsecond response times; transaction handling; Application software; Computerized monitoring; Costs; Data security; Data visualization; Delay; Distributed databases; Monitoring; Personal communication networks; Production systems; Transaction databases; Voice mail;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Computer

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9162

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/2.471177

Filename

471177