A Bibliography on System Performance Evaluation

A relational approach to monitoring complex systems

“…Debugging proceeds in five stages [50]: (1) o b serve the behavior of a computer program; (2) compare this behavior with the desired behavior; (3) analyze the differences; (4) devise changes to the program to make its behavior conform more closely to the desired behavior; and (5) alter the program in accordance with these changes. Monitoring is concerned with the first and, to some extent, the second and third stages in this process.…”

“…This definition encompasses aspects of observation, measurement, and testing. * Much has been written about monitoring uniprocessor systems (cf., the bibliographies [2] and [54]), and the general l Richard Snodgrass techniques of tracing and sampling are well established. These approaches do not scale well to m,onitoring complex systems, which include large uniprocessors, tightly coupled multiprocessor systems, and loosely coupled local and long-haul networks.…”

A methodology for interactive computer service measurement

“…By now it is fairly common to instrument a computer system for purposes of refinement, debugging, and configuration analysis. Various techniques, employed individually or in combination, include hardware modification of the computer, attachment of external hardware monitors without modification to the main frame, and introduction of monitoring software in the executive or as user programs [7].…”