Argus - Debugging Performance Issues in Modern Desktop Applications with Annotated Causal Tracing

Argus - Debugging Performance Issues in Modern Desktop Applications with Annotated Causal Tracing

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Argus workflow

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Argus - Debugging Performance Issues in Modern Desktop Applications with Annotated Causal Tracing

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  1. 1 Intro
  2. 2 Existing tools for diagnosing desktop apps
  3. 3 Desktop app diagnosis is under-investigated
  4. 4 An example of existing causal tracing
  5. 5 Existing causal tracing fails to diagnose desktop apps * It is hard to identify accurate execution segment boundaries in some threads Some execution segments have multiple incoming edges large search…
  6. 6 Where are the inaccuracies from? *Over-connections unnecessary searching paths
  7. 7 Why the inaccuracies happen to the desktop apps?
  8. 8 Key insights
  9. 9 Argus workflow
  10. 10 Annotated tracing graphs
  11. 11 Causal search: beam search based
  12. 12 Sub-graph comparison
  13. 13 diagnosis effectiveness
  14. 14 diagnosis cost Time cost of Argus on diagnosing the 12 real world performance issues Graph diagnosis Graph construction
  15. 15 tracing overhead
  16. 16 Conclusions
  17. 17 Related work

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