User-defined Classification and Multi-level Grouping of Objects in Memory Monitoring

Description

Software becomes more and more complex. Performance degradations and anomalies can often only be understood by using monitoring approaches, e.g., for tracing the allocations and lifetimes of objects on the heap. However, this leads to huge amounts of data that have to be classified, grouped and visualized in order to be useful for developers. In this paper, we present a flexible offline memory analysis approach that allows classifying heap objects based on arbitrary criteria. A small set of predefined classification criteria such as the type and the allocation site of an object can further be extended by additional user-defined criteria. In contrast to state-of-the-art tools, which group objects based on a single criterion, our approach allows the combination of multiple criteria using multi-level grouping. The resulting classification trees allow a flexible in-depth analysis of the data and a natural hierarchical visualization of the results.

Period	12 Apr 2018
Event title	9th ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering (ICPE 2018)
Event type	Conference
Location	GermanyShow on map