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Performance analysis of interactive systems

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Many topics are covered by the science (art?) of system performance analysis. Among these are measurement of existing systems, tuning, performance evaluation, design of control algorithms, system modeling, workload characterization, and performance prediction. After giving a brief summary of these topics, the paper will concentrate on the last three. It will describe how existing workloads can be measured and analyzed routinely so as to produce the inputs required by analytic system models. These models employ queueing network formulations which allow the workload to consist of several user classes with different characteristics. Such models have been validated successfully against real systems, but some problems, particularly relating to paging in virtual memory systems, have so far not received definitive solutions.

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    Yonathan Bard

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Albrecht Blaser Clemens Hackl

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Bard, Y. (1977). Performance analysis of interactive systems. In: Blaser, A., Hackl, C. (eds) Interactive Systems. IBM 1976. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 49. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-08141-0_6

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