Online measurement of the capacity of multi-tier websites using hardware performance counters

Proceedings - The 28th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, ICDCS 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 705-712

  Rao, Jia ^a   Xu, Cheng Zhong ^a  

^a Wayne State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

A-PRIORI; ACCESS PATTERNS; APPLICATION-LEVEL PERFORMANCE; BOTTLENECK SHIFTING; CAPACITY MEASUREMENTS; DATA COLLECTIONS; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING SYSTEMS; HARDWARE PERFORMANCE COUNTERS; INPUT TRAFFIC; INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES; MACHINE-LEARNING TECHNIQUES; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; MULTI TIERED; ON-LINE MEASUREMENTS; OVERLOAD PREDICTION; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; RESPONSE TIME; RUN-TIME; SERVER CAPACITY; STRESS TESTING; SYSTEM-CAPACITY; WEB SITE;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER SYSTEMS; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; MANAGEMENT; PLANNING; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SERVERS; WORLD WIDE WEB;

INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT;

EID: 51849101506     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICDCS.2008.97     Document Type: Conference Paper

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