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Accurate offline synchronization of distributed traces using kernel-level events

Poirier et al., 2010

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15167105302885218776
Author
Poirier B
Roy R
Dagenais M
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Publication venue
ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review

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Tracing has proven to be a valuable tool for identifying functional and performance problems. In order to use it on distributed nodes, the timestamps in the traces need to be precisely synchronized. The objective of this work is to improve synchronization of traces …
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