Tuning a virtual storage system
H. A. Anderson, Mark‐Oliver Reiser, G. L. Galati · IBM Systems Journal · 1975
Contemporary operating systems provide system resource management mechanisms that permit the installation manager to define his system performance objectives. The installation manager thinks of these objectives in terms of response time or throughput, but in relaity they have to be translated into system internal terms such as time slice deadlines or service units. This is not an easy translation to make, since it requires experimentation with different system resource management policies. Identifying the appropriate system resouce management policy require methodological approach. Such a methodology consists, first, of performance measurements, workload characterization, and performance evaluation, followed by a series of performance tuning experiments. We found that by using such a methodology, we were able to characterize the workload and the behavior of the IBM Research Division's TSS/360 system, then verify that our proposed scheduling change positively improved system responsiveness.