Abstract
A methodology (JAGATH) and a tool based on it for establishing the performance of a distributed system within an empirical framework are presented. A set of performance variables representing the system performance is derived in terms of a combination of a set of performance measures. These performance measures represent the actual measurements of the events in the system. These performance variables are used to display the system performance status in the form of Kiviat graphs. The causal relationship between the performance variables and the internal system control variables and the workload characteristics can be established. This can be used in a performance ‘tuning’ system.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Preview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
References
Sunil Santha and Udo W. Pooch, “A survey of distributed systems performance evaluation tools,” in Proceedings of the International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications (PDPTA’98), Las Vegas, Nevada, July 1998, CSREA.
Sunil Santha, A Technique for Distributed Systems Performance Evaluation and Control, Ph.D. thesis, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, 1997.
James Rankin and Michael Paulson, Distributed Computing, chapter 3, pp. 26–29, NCC Blackwell Limited, 108 Cowley Road, Oxford OX4 1JF, England, 1993.
Sunil Santha and Udo W. Pooch, “A statistics based approach for performance management in distributed systems,” Researh Report TR-98-003, Department of Computer Science, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, January 1998.
Sunil Santha and Udo W. Pooch, “An algorithm for performance data reduction using principle component analyais,” Researh Report TR-98-008, Department of Computer Science, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, March 1998.
Pedro Sanabria, Design and Verification of Computer Performance Measure Evaluation Analysis Techniques, Ph.D. thesis, Texas A&M University, TX, 1977.
Ronald P. Cody, Applied Statistics and the SAS Programming Language, Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ, 1997.
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 1998 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
About this paper
Cite this paper
Santha, S., Pooch, U. (1998). JAGATH: A Methodology and its Application for Distributed Systems Performance Evaluation and Control. In: Puigjaner, R., Savino, N.N., Serra, B. (eds) Computer Performance Evaluation. TOOLS 1998. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1469. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-68061-6_34
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-68061-6_34
Published:
Publisher Name: Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
Print ISBN: 978-3-540-64949-6
Online ISBN: 978-3-540-68061-1
eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive