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One of the possible applications of the POSIX tracing services is to obtain system metrics from trace streams. A trace stream stores a sequence of events generated by the system during the application execution. By interpreting this sequence of events, interesting system metrics can be obtained. Unfortunately, the interpretation of these sequences of events may be very difficult for a programmer who does not know the system implementation in detail. In order to solve this problem, we present an interface which is implemented on top of the POSIX tracing services. This interface allows the programmer to obtain predefined system metrics and user-defined metrics from trace streams without having to know the system implementation.
This work has been funded by the Ministerio de Ciencia y Tecnologia of the Spanish Government under grants DPI2002-04434-C04-02 and TIC2002-04123-C03-03 and by the Generalitat Valenciana under grant CTIDIB/2002/61
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Espinosa Minguet, A., Lorente Garcés, V., García Fornes, A., Crespo i Lorente, A. (2003). Getting System Metrics Using POSIX Tracing Services. In: Rosen, JP., Strohmeier, A. (eds) Reliable Software Technologies — Ada-Europe 2003. Ada-Europe 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2655. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44947-7_16
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