Displaying Trace Files

Computers generate trace files containing reports on system performance, status and faults. To analyze these trace files more efficiently, we have developed a graphical technique embodied in an interactive system for displaying large trace files. Our system uses ion, color, aggregation, filtering, i...

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Published inSoftware, practice & experience Vol. 26; no. 4; pp. 399 - 409
Main Authors EICK, STEPHEN G., LUCAS, PAUL J.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published New York John Wiley & Sons, Ltd 01.04.1996
Wiley
Subjects
Applied sciences
Computer science; control theory; systems
Computer systems and distributed systems. User interface
Exact sciences and technology
graphics data visualization
interactive command usages
log file visualization
log files
Software
software visualization
Graphics
File server
Visualization
Interactive mode
UNIX system
Software
Safety
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Summary:Computers generate trace files containing reports on system performance, status and faults. To analyze these trace files more efficiently, we have developed a graphical technique embodied in an interactive system for displaying large trace files. Our system uses ion, color, aggregation, filtering, interaction, and a drill‐down capability to find patterns among the reports. We apply our system and technique to analyze command accounting trace files from a Unix compute server, showing what commands were executed, by which users, when, and how long the commands ran. We identify resource intensive commands, sequences of commands initiated by a compilations, and commands run with super‐user permissions.
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ISSN:0038-0644
1097-024X
DOI:10.1002/(SICI)1097-024X(199604)26:4<399::AID-SPE8>3.0.CO;2-J