Applying control theory in the real world: Experience with building a controller for the .NET thread pool

Performance Evaluation Review

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 38-42

  Hellerstein, Joseph L ^a   Morrison, Vance ^b   Eilebrecht, Eric ^b  

^a GOOGLE INC   (United States)

^b MICROSOFT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APRIORI; CONTROL TECHNIQUES; CONTROLLER DESIGNS; CONTROLLER PARAMETER; CONTROLLER PERFORMANCE; DATABASE MANAGERS; DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS; PERFORMANCE METRICS; POTENTIAL VALUES; TEST CASE; WEB SERVERS;

CONTROL THEORY; NETWORK SECURITY; SYSTEM THEORY;

CONTROLLERS;

EID: 77954580475     PISSN: 01635999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1710115.1710123     Document Type: Conference Paper

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