DARC: Dynamic analysis of Root causes of latency distributions

SIGMETRICS'08: Proceedings of the 2008 ACM SIGMETRICS International Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems

Volumn 36, Issue 1 SPECIAL ISSUE, 2008, Pages 277-288

  Traeger, Avishay ^a   Deras, Ivan ^a   Zadok, Erez ^a  

^a Stony Brook University   (United States)

Author keywords

Dynamic instrumentation; Root cause

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SYSTEMS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

ANALYSIS PROCESSES; DYNAMIC INSTRUMENTATION; LATENCY ANALYSIS; ROOT CAUSE; ROOT CAUSES; UNIQUE FEATURES; USE CASES;

DYNAMIC ANALYSIS;

EID: 57349119836     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1375457.1375489     Document Type: Conference Paper

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