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Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Capturing Workload Pathology By SEDS - my CMG'05 paper

The paper can be found here: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/221447101_Capturing_Workload_Pathology_by_Statistical_Exception_Detection_System
Here is the resume:
Problem definition: The Servers workload pathology  (defects) such as run-away processes and memory leaks captures spare server resources and causes the following issues:
- being a parasite type of workload they compete for the resources with the real workload and causes performance degradations;
- they mimic capacity issue, but they are not a real capacity problem and just spoil the historical sample and causes wrong capacity trends as seen on the Figure below:

To fight this problem I have developed the way to capture those defects, report on them and then to remove them from historical sample to see real capacity trends. That was implemented as a part od SEDS application. Detailed explanations are in my CMG'05 paper  "Capturing Workload Pathology by Statistical Exception Detection System"
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Other good result of implementing this problem resolution was dramatic reduce number of incidents related to run-away and memory leaks defects. The chart below shows 2+ time reduction for 2 years:


Other work in this area made by Ron Kaminski. See CMG paper here:

Automating Process and Workload Pathology Detection


presentation slides:  

Automating Process and Workload Pathology

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