Using Covariance Analysis as an aid to interpret the results of a performance measurement

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Using Covariance Analysis as an aid to interpret the results of a performance measurement

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Proceedings of the 1976 ACM SIGMETRICS conference on Computer performance modeling measurement and evaluation table of contents

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Pages: 179 - 186

Year of Publication: 1976

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Carlos González

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IFIP WG 7.3 : IFIP WG 7.3
SIGMETRICS: ACM Special Interest Group on Measurement and Evaluation

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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ABSTRACT

This paper reports on a measurement study of the Scheduler in the PDP-10 TENEX Operating System under normal loads in a Computer Science research environment at Case Western Reserve University. A complete description of the methodology and the results of a Covariance Analysis is presented here. The analysis was made in parallel with the analysis of the collected data, therefore a brief description of the experiments as well as some comments of the most interesting results are also discussed in this report. The complete report of the study is in González [5] which shall serve as a reference document for this paper.

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