Chapter 4. Workload Management

Application workloads can be understood in terms of the resources they consume on each of the systems that they are distributed across.

Resource measurements are available at the system level and at the per-process level. Analysis of per-process measurements separates the raw data into application workloads. When several applications are consolidated onto a single system, resource contention can occur. Analysis determines which resource is suffering from contention and which application workloads are involved. This chapter describes several tools that help perform process-based analysis.

This chapter also describes several diverse, real-life situations and the appropriate tools to use with them.

  • The first scenario ...

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