INTRODUCTION TO

SYSTEM PERFORMANCE
EVALUATION
INTRODUCTION
PERFORMANCE EVALUATION IS
ABOUT QUANTIFYING THE SERVICE
PROVIDED BY A SYSTEM.

THREE MAIN FACTORS:

• System design
• System implementation
• Workload

PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS
INVOLVES DERIVATION OF HIGHEST
PERFORMANCE FOR A SPECIFIC
COST.
PERFORMANCE EVALUATION: WORKLOAD
WORKLOAD IS THE NATURE AND QUANTITY OF
REQUESTS MADE ON A SYSTEM.
• CPU workload is instructions to execute.
• Database workload is queries to execute.

HIGH INTENSITY WORKLOADS RESULT IN

PERFORMANCE DETERIORATION.

DETERIORATION CAN BE SUDDEN AND NOT JUST

LINEAR.
DYNAMIC VS. STATIC WORKLOADS

STATIC WORKLOAD DYNAMIC WORKLOAD

FIXED AMOUNT OF WORK IS WORK CONTINUES TO ARRIVE

GIVEN AND COMPLETED. ALL THE TIME.

ASSUMPTION IS ALL WORK MIX OF WORKLOAD ITEMS ALSO

ARRIVES AT ONCE. INCLUDING AN ARRIVAL
PROCESS.
PERFORMANCE EVALUATION: METRICS
A MEASURABLE QUANTITY
CAPTURING SYSTEM PERFORMANCE.

EXAMPLES:
• Throughput
• Goodput (throughput without overhead)
• Power consumption
• Response time

CAN TAKE VARIOUS FORMS:

• Average
• Worst case
• Percentile
MEAN

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Operations Time (seconds)

Computer A Computer B Computer C
Program 1 100 1 5 10
Program 2 100 999 50 10
Total 1000 55 20
Mean 500 27.5 10

Computer C is 50 times faster than Computer A.

PERFORMANCE EVALUATION IS ABOUT ORIGINAL
MEASURING A PROPERTY OF INTEREST IN SLIDES BY
OUR COMPUTER SYSTEMS. PELUMI
APANTAKU.

WORKLOADS ALLOW US TO SIMULATE HOW UPDATED

THE COMPUTER WILL PERFORM UNDER SLIDES BY
CERTAIN CONDITIONS. KEVIN
CHALMERS.

METRICS MEASURE SOMETHING OF INTEREST

IN OUR SYSTEM. VIDEO BY
KEVIN
CHALMERS.
MEANS ARE A COMMON METHOD TO
EVALUATE PERFORMANCE. IMAGES