Identifying sources of operating system jitter through fine-grained kernel instrumentation

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing, ICCC

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 331-340

  De, Pradipta ^a   Kothari, Ravi ^a   Mann, Vijay ^a  

^a IBM INDIA RESEARCH LAB   (India)

Author keywords

Interference; Jitter; Kernel instrumentation; Kernel profiling; Operating system noise

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARKING; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; INSTRUMENTS; JITTER; SATELLITE OBSERVATORIES; SHELTERS (FROM ATTACK); TUNING;

INTERFERENCE; KERNEL INSTRUMENTATION; KERNEL PROFILING; OPERATING SYSTEM NOISE;

COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS;

EID: 53349144665     PISSN: 15525244     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CLUSTR.2007.4629247     Document Type: Conference Paper

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