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- From: gupta@crhc.uiuc.edu (Aloke Gupta)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.misc
- Subject: "Protocol-level" profiling of client-server interaction
- Date: 11 Dec 92 19:11:34
- Organization: University of Illinois Center for Reliable & High Performance
- Computing
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- In my graduate work I have proposed an approach called "Protocol-level
- Profiling" (PLP) for characterizing client-server interaction. The basic
- idea behind PLP is to checkpoint the interaction between the client and the
- server and then estimate the computation invoked on the server by carefully
- assigning a cost to each of the messages on the basis of its attributes.
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- I have written a profiler, Xprof, which is a protocol-level profiler
- for X Window applications. It is available by anonymous ftp from
- roundup.crhc.uiuc.edu (128.174.197.134)
- under pub/Xprof.
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- Question:
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- I am curious to know if such a strategy has been used to characterize any
- other client-server system. Any pointers?
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- I will summarize and post all such responses.
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- Thank you in advance
-
- Aloke Gupta
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- Aloke Gupta E-mail: gupta@crhc.uiuc.edu
- Coordinated Science Laboratory or a-gupta@uiuc.edu
- Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering
- Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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