Applications of Randomness in System Performance Measurement (1998)
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Trevor Leslie Blackwell
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@TECHREPORT{Blackwell98applicationsof,
author = {Trevor Leslie Blackwell},
title = {Applications of Randomness in System Performance Measurement},
institution = {},
year = {1998}
}
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Abstract
This thesis presents and analyzes a simple principle for building systems: that there should be a random component in all arbitrary decisions. If no randomness is used, system performance can vary widely and unpredictably due to small changes in the system workload or configuration. This makes measurements hard to reproduce and less meaningful as predictors of performance that could be expected in similar situations.
