Techniques for delayed binding of monitoring mechanisms to application-specific instrumentation points

Jeffrey Vetter; Karsten Schwan

doi:10.1109/ICPP.1998.708520

Techniques for delayed binding of monitoring mechanisms to application-specific instrumentation points

Jeffrey Vetter, Karsten Schwan

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Abstract

Online interaction with computer systems and applications allows developers to monitor, experiment with, and debug long-running resource-intensive applications at runtime. Traditionally, developers statically bind a monitoring mechanism to each application-specific instrumentation point. This approach has shortcomings for online, interactive monitoring. Namely, static binding limits portability among monitoring systems; it may mismatch monitoring mechanisms to interactive requests for monitoring data; and, predictions for the performance and execution paths of instrumentation for static bindings are left to the developer. To address these concerns, we have created a new technique called monitoring assertions that allows monitoring systems to delay binding of monitoring mechanisms to application-specific instrumentation points until runtime. Our empirical results show that we can alter the performance of both the application and the monitoring system by removing static binding requirement of application-specific monitoring systems.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings - 1998 International Conference on Parallel Processing, ICPP 1998
Editors	Ten H. Lai
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages	477-484
Number of pages	8
ISBN (Electronic)	0818686502
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ICPP.1998.708520
State	Published - 1998
Externally published	Yes
Event	1998 International Conference on Parallel Processing, ICPP 1998 - Minneapolis, United States Duration: Aug 10 1998 → Aug 14 1998

Publication series

Name	Proceedings of the International Conference on Parallel Processing
ISSN (Print)	0190-3918

Conference

Conference	1998 International Conference on Parallel Processing, ICPP 1998
Country/Territory	United States
City	Minneapolis
Period	08/10/98 → 08/14/98

Funding

NASA financially supported Vetter with a Graduate Student Researchers Program Fellowship while he was a Ph.D. candidate at Georgia Tech. This work was also funded, in part, by NSF equipment grants CDA-9501637, CDA-9422033, and ECS-9411846.

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Vetter, J., & Schwan, K. (1998). Techniques for delayed binding of monitoring mechanisms to application-specific instrumentation points. In T. H. Lai (Ed.), Proceedings - 1998 International Conference on Parallel Processing, ICPP 1998 (pp. 477-484). (Proceedings of the International Conference on Parallel Processing). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICPP.1998.708520

Vetter, Jeffrey ; Schwan, Karsten. / Techniques for delayed binding of monitoring mechanisms to application-specific instrumentation points. Proceedings - 1998 International Conference on Parallel Processing, ICPP 1998. editor / Ten H. Lai. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 1998. pp. 477-484 (Proceedings of the International Conference on Parallel Processing).

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Techniques for delayed binding of monitoring mechanisms to application-specific instrumentation points. / Vetter, Jeffrey; Schwan, Karsten.
Proceedings - 1998 International Conference on Parallel Processing, ICPP 1998. ed. / Ten H. Lai. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 1998. p. 477-484 (Proceedings of the International Conference on Parallel Processing).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

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