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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 09, 2019
Filed:
Jun. 28, 2016
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Robert M. Abrams, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);
Karla K. Arndt, Rochester, MN (US);
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Present disclosure relates to methods, processing systems and computer program products of analyzing contention data and following resource blockers to find root causes of computer problems. The method may include: detecting one or more resource waiters in a computer system, iteratively determining whether the resource blockers are a resource waiter, until a final resource blocker not waiting for another resource is found, determining, whether final resource blocker is caused by a resource blocker in a different computer system, iteratively executing, the method on the different computer system to find the final resource blocker not waiting for another resource is found, determining, whether the final resource blocker has more than one symptom that may or may not be a contention problem, selecting a symptom that has the highest priority as the root cause of the computer problems, and generating, using the processor, a report of root causes of the computer problems.