System-level Performance Management

10/27/99


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Table of Contents

System-level Performance Management

Overview

Influence of Linux Philosophies

Challenges to the Status Quo

Large Systems Influences

Production Environment Influences

Neanderthal Approaches

Features of a Desirable Export Infrastructure

Plug-in Collector and Client-Server Architecture

Features of a Desirable Performance Tool Environment

2-D Performance Visualization

3-D Performance Visualization

3-D Visualization of Platform Performance

3-D Visualization of Application Performance

Reasoning About Performance Data

Performance Co-Pilot Porting History

Performance Co-Pilot Porting

Performance Co-Pilot Porting

A Linux Performance Monitoring Architecture

A Beowulf Perf Monitoring Architecture - Node View

A Beowulf Perf Monitoring Architecture - Application View

A Beowulf Perf Monitoring Architecture - Cluster View

Some Concluding Comments

Author: Ken McDonell

Email: pcp@oss.sgi.com

Home Page: http://oss.sgi.com/projects/pcp-base

Other information:
Presented at the Conference of Australian Linux Users, Melbourne, August 1999.