Thinking Methodically about Performance.

The article focuses on the complexity of systems-performance analysis and discusses methods for analyzing the computer network and operating system performance. The article discusses the blame-someone-else anti-method and the streetlight anti-method which avoid or delay the investigation of performa...

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Publicado en:Communications of the ACM Vol. 56; no. 2; pp. 45 - 52
Autor principal: GREGG, BRENDAN
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Association for Computing Machinery Feb2013
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Sumario:The article focuses on the complexity of systems-performance analysis and discusses methods for analyzing the computer network and operating system performance. The article discusses the blame-someone-else anti-method and the streetlight anti-method which avoid or delay the investigation of performance problems. Topics include observational bias, the problem statement, the drill-down analysis, and the workload characterization method. The USE (utilization, saturation, and errors) method identifies bottlenecks in central processing units (CPUs).