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A Comparison of the Influence of Different Multi-core Processors on the Runtime Overhead for Application-Level Monitoring

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Multicore Software Engineering, Performance, and Tools (MSEPT 2012)

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Abstract

Application-level monitoring is required for continuously operating software systems to maintain their performance and availability at runtime. Performance monitoring of software systems requires storing time series data in a monitoring log or stream. Such monitoring may cause a significant runtime overhead to the monitored system.

In this paper, we evaluate the influence of multi-core processors on the overhead of the Kieker application-level monitoring framework. We present a breakdown of the monitoring overhead into three portions and the results of extensive controlled laboratory experiments with micro-benchmarks to quantify these portions of monitoring overhead under controlled and repeatable conditions. Our experiments show that the already low overhead of the Kieker framework may be further reduced on multi-core processors with asynchronous writing of the monitoring log.

Our experiment code and data are available as open source software such that interested researchers may repeat or extend our experiments for comparison on other hardware platforms or with other monitoring frameworks.

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  1. Software Engineering Group, Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel, Germany

    Jan Waller & Wilhelm Hasselbring

  2. SPEC Research Group, Steering Committee, Gainesville, VA, USA

    Wilhelm Hasselbring

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  1. IPD, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, 76128, Karlsruhe, Germany

    Victor Pankratius

  2. Computer Science Department, Programming Systems Group, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Martensstr. 3, 91058, Erlangen, Germany

    Michael Philippsen

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Waller, J., Hasselbring, W. (2012). A Comparison of the Influence of Different Multi-core Processors on the Runtime Overhead for Application-Level Monitoring. In: Pankratius, V., Philippsen, M. (eds) Multicore Software Engineering, Performance, and Tools. MSEPT 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7303. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31202-1_5

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