Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) / This thesis investigates techniques for improving real-time software instrumentation techniques of software systems. In particular, this thesis investigates two aspects of this real-time software instrumentation. First, this thesis investigates techniques for achieving different levels of visibility (i.e., ensuring all parts of a system are represented, or visible, in final results) into a software system without compromising software system performance. Secondly, this thesis investigates how using multi-core computing can be used to further reduce instrumentation overhead. The results of this research show that reservoir sampling can be used to reduce instrumentation overhead. Reservoir sampling at a rate of 20%, combined with parallelized disk I/O, added 34.1% additional overhead on a four-core machine, and only 9.9% additional overhead on a sixty-four core machine while also providing the desired system visibility. Additionally, this work can be used to further improve the performance of real-time distributed software instrumentation.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:IUPUI/oai:scholarworks.iupui.edu:1805/19977 |
| Date | 08 1900 |
| Creators | Upp, Brandon E. |
| Contributors | Hill, James H., Tuceryan, Mihran, Raje, Rajeev R. |
| Source Sets | Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis |
| Language | en_US |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
| Rights | Attribution 3.0 United States, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/us/ |
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