Cover Image
QR Code

The Flame Graph.

The article discusses the problem of central processing unit (CPU) resource utilization through the "flame" graph during computer programming and program development. Techniques for CPU profiling are compared including stack trace sampling and the use of the programs DTrace and perf_events to optimi...

Full description

Published in:Communications of the ACM Vol. 59; no. 6; pp. 48 - 58
Main Author: GREGG, BRENDAN
Format: Article
Published: Association for Computing Machinery Jun2016
Subjects:
Charts, diagrams, etc.
Graphic methods
Data visualization
Data modeling
Central processing units
Database evaluation
Online Access:View this record in EBSCOhost
Summary:The article discusses the problem of central processing unit (CPU) resource utilization through the "flame" graph during computer programming and program development. Techniques for CPU profiling are compared including stack trace sampling and the use of the programs DTrace and perf_events to optimize application performance of a MySQL database is described.