Event-based performance analysis

Author

Reiss, Steven P.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Brown Univ., Providence, RI, USA

fYear

2003

fDate

10-11 May 2003

Firstpage

74

Lastpage

83

Abstract

Understanding performance and related issues in a complex system requires analyzing where and why the program spends its resources. In a reactive system such as an interactive application or a server it is important for understanding that one is able to associate resource usage with the events, be they user actions or client requests, that triggered the corresponding execution. As part of our software visualization and analysis efforts we have developed a system that lets the programmer define what is meant by an event and then to track the resources used in processing that event through the system. The resultant data is currently used to produce visualizations of event-based resource utilization.

Keywords

data visualisation; reverse engineering; software performance evaluation; event-based performance analysis; event-based resource utilization; performance understanding; software visualization; Application software; Computer science; Data visualization; Performance analysis; Programming profession; Real time systems; Resource management; Sampling methods; Software systems; Yarn;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Program Comprehension, 2003. 11th IEEE International Workshop on

ISSN

1092-8138

Print_ISBN

0-7695-1883-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WPC.2003.1199191

Filename

1199191