Paper Info
Title
TraceAnalyzer: a system for processing performance traces
Abstract
The performance of a program often varies significantly over the course of the program's run. Thus, to understand the performance of a program it is valuable to look not just at end-to-end metrics (e.g. total number of cache misses) but also the time-varying performance of the program. Unfortunately, analyzing time-varying performance is both cumbersome and difficult. This paper makes three contributions, all geared toward helping others in working with traces. First, it describes a system, the TraceAnalyzer, designed specifically for working with performance traces; a performance trace captures the time-varying performance of a program run. Second, it describes lessons that we have learned from many years of working with these traces. Finally, it uses a case study to demonstrate how we have used the TraceAnalyzer to understand a performance anomaly. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1002/spe.1000
Softw., Pract. Exper.
Keywords
DocType
Volume
total number,program run,time-varying performance,performance trace,end-to-end metrics,performance anomaly,John Wiley,processing performance trace,case study
Journal
41
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
3
0038-0644
8
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.57
9
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Amer Diwan194176.40
Matthias Hauswirth231734.96
Todd Mytkowicz342829.09
Peter F. Sweeney474269.82