Error identification
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1. A method of identifying errors in a computing system operation, the method comprising:
- identifying that a certain record of interest in system trace information has a number of entries that exceeds a predefined number; and
inferring from the excessive number of entries that a work unit associated with the certain record of interest is affected by an error,wherein the entries of interest comprise those entries not discarded as relating to special processors.
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A method of identifying errors in a computing system operation is provided and includes identifying that a certain record of interest in system trace information has a number of entries that exceeds a predefined number and inferring from the excessive number of entries that a work unit associated with the certain record of interest is affected by an error.
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1. A method of identifying errors in a computing system operation, the method comprising:
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identifying that a certain record of interest in system trace information has a number of entries that exceeds a predefined number; and inferring from the excessive number of entries that a work unit associated with the certain record of interest is affected by an error, wherein the entries of interest comprise those entries not discarded as relating to special processors. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
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8. A method of identifying execution loops in a computing system, comprising:
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obtaining system trace information; sorting and organizing the system trace information; identifying that a certain type of record in the system trace information has a first predefined number of entries; removing noise entries and discarding certain other entries; and in an event a number of remaining entries is greater than a second predefined number, inferring that a work unit associated with the certain type of record is in a loop. - View Dependent Claims (9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18)
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