As computing systems become more widely deployed and more heavily used, there is increasing demand for performance improvement. Software developers may not know in advance the types of workloads that their systems will face, or the variety of hardware platforms that they will run on. Instead of attempting to optimize the software systems for one particular situation, they often expose many tuning parameters which can be set by the system administrator. The administrator thus has the ability to set these parameters to optimize the system’s performance in accordance with some high-level goals. These high-level goals are often application specific and are designed to satisfy various business needs.
By: Y. Diao, J. Hellerstein, and S. Parekh,N. Gandhi(The University of Michigan), D. M. Tilbury,(The University of Michigan)
Published in: RC22216 in 2001
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