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Performance management activities within UNIX International

1993; Association for Computing Machinery; Volume: 21; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1145/174215.174221

1557-9484

CORPORATE UNIX International,

Distributed systems and fault tolerance

The primary output of the UNIX International Work Group on Performance Measurement is a set of requirements and recommendations to UNIX International and UNIX System Laboratories for the development of standard performance measurement interfaces to the UNIX System. Requirements will be based on the collective, non-vendor specific needs for a standard performance architecture. Currently the lack of this standard causes undue porting and kernel additions by each UNIX System vendor as well as a great variety of approaches to gain the same basic performance insight into the system. Building tools to monitor, display, model, or predict performance or its trends is a frustrating and currently single vendor enterprise. By providing standard data structures, types of performance data gathered, and a common kernel interface to collect this data, the whole UNIX system vendor community along with the UNIX software vendors can develop performance tools which last more than one UNIX release and work on multiple UNIX platforms.