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User-centered Offline Analysis of Memory Monitoring Data

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Markus Weninger,

Philipp Lengauer,

Hanspeter MössenböckAuthors Info & Claims

ICPE '17: Proceedings of the 8th ACM/SPEC on International Conference on Performance Engineering

Pages 357 - 360

https://doi.org/10.1145/3030207.3030236

Published: 17 April 2017 Publication History

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State-of-the-art memory monitoring tools collect lots of raw data. Yet, the analysis of this data is often not well supported. Existing tools restrict the user in the way how to analyze the underlying data, how to process it, and how to visualize it. This results in the dilemma that the raw data often contains more information than what can be exploited. We present a novel user-centric approach, allowing custom offline analysis and visualization of memory monitoring data by employing user-defined classification on heap objects. Putting the user in the center of the analysis process and providing flexible query and classification interfaces can change the way how we monitor memory usage. Our goal is to turn special-purpose memory monitoring tools into more general and customizable tools.

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Weninger MGrünbacher PGander ESchörgenhumer A(2020)Evaluating an Interactive Memory Analysis Tool: Findings from a Cognitive Walkthrough and a User StudyProceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction10.1145/33949774:EICS(1-37)Online publication date: 18-Jun-2020
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ICPE '17: Proceedings of the 8th ACM/SPEC on International Conference on Performance Engineering

April 2017

450 pages

ISBN:9781450344043

DOI:10.1145/3030207

General Chairs:
Walter Binder
Università della Svizzera Italiana, Switzerland
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Vittorio Cortellessa
Università dell'Aquila, Italy
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Anne Koziolek
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
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Evgenia Smirni
College of William & Mary, USA
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Meikel Poess
Oracle Corporation, USA

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April 22 - 26, 2017

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Weninger MGrünbacher PGander ESchörgenhumer A(2020)Evaluating an Interactive Memory Analysis Tool: Findings from a Cognitive Walkthrough and a User StudyProceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction10.1145/33949774:EICS(1-37)Online publication date: 18-Jun-2020
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