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Argus: Debugging performance issues in modern desktop applications with annotated causal tracing

Weng et al., 2021

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Document ID
1066656958429413579
Author
Weng L
Huang P
Nieh J
Yang J
Publication year
Publication venue
2021 USENIX Annual Technical Conference (USENIX ATC 21)

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Modern desktop applications involve many asynchronous, concurrent interactions that make performance issues difficult to diagnose. Although prior work has used causal tracing for debugging performance issues in distributed systems, we find that these techniques suffer …
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