An intelligent tool for UNIX performance tuning

Author

Velez, Raul ; Zhang, Du ; Kho, James

Author_Institution

NCR Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico

fYear

1993

fDate

8-11 Nov 1993

Firstpage

118

Lastpage

122

Abstract

The authors present the design and implementation of a knowledge-based tool for performance tuning of the UNIX operating system. The tool, called BMS, provides intelligent support and maintenance for identifying bottlenecks in UNIX performance and recommending solutions to the problems. Currently, it handles problems in UNIX resource managers, such as memory utilization, disk utilization, CPU scheduling and I/O devices. BMS has been implemented in the EXSYS environment and tested on UNIX V.3. Preliminary results have indicated that such a knowledge-based tool for operating system performance tuning is viable; increases the productivity of system maintenance personnel and reduces the cost of training; and provides users of an operating system with prompt solutions to their system performance problems

Keywords

Unix; knowledge based systems; resource allocation; software maintenance; software performance evaluation; BMS; CPU scheduling; EXSYS environment; I/O devices; UNIX performance tuning; UNIX resource managers; bottlenecks; disk utilization; input output devices; intelligent support; intelligent tool; knowledge-based tool; maintenance; memory utilization; operating system; operating system performance tuning; system maintenance personnel; system performance problems; training; Cities and towns; Costs; Memory management; Operating systems; Personnel; Productivity; Prototypes; Resource management; System performance; Testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Tools with Artificial Intelligence, 1993. TAI '93. Proceedings., Fifth International Conference on

Conference_Location

Boston, MA

ISSN

1063-6730

Print_ISBN

0-8186-4200-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/TAI.1993.633945

Filename

633945