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Continuous computer performance measurement tool that reduces operating system produced performance data for logging into global, process, and workload files

  • US 5,067,107 A
  • Filed: 11/05/1988
  • Issued: 11/19/1991
  • Est. Priority Date: 08/05/1988
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A performance and measurement system embedded within a computing system for measuring performance of the computing system, the performance and measurement system comprising:

  • performance data production means within an operating system of the computing system for producing performance data;

    at least one data file; and

    data collection and reduction means, coupled to the performance data production means and to the at least one data file, for receiving the performance data, reducing the performance data into standardized metrics to produce reduced data, and logging the reduced data into the at least one data file; and

    wherein said at least one data file comprisesa global data file into which said data collection and reduction means logs information about the computing system as a whole;

    a process data file into which said data collection and reduction means logs information about selected processes selected by the data collection and reduction means, wherein said selected processes include processes which during a specified interval are terminated, and processes which during a specified interval use at least a predetermined amount of a given resource of the computing system; and

    a workload data file into which said data collection and reduction means logs information about classes of processes.

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