Visualizing threads, transactions and tasks

Authors:
Steven P. Reiss;Suman Karumuri
Affiliations:
Brown University, Providence, RI, USA;Brown University, Providence, RI, USA
Venue:
Proceedings of the 9th ACM SIGPLAN-SIGSOFT workshop on Program analysis for software tools and engineering
Year:
2010

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Abstract

Modern systems, particularly servers, involve multiple threads dealing with multiple incoming transactions using either implicit or explicit internal tasks. Understanding the inherently complex behavior of such systems can be quite difficult. We present a framework that offers a visualization of this behavior in system-specific terms in real time. The framework is unique in that it uses a combination of program analyses to minimize the work the user needs to do to construct the visualization.