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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 25, 2003
Filed:
Dec. 10, 1999
Kristen Marie Robins, San Jose, CA (US);
John G. Waclawsky, Fredrick, MD (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
The invention is directed to techniques for measuring resource usage of a computer when processing a data element, using a usage field assigned to the data element. In one arrangement, the computer includes multiple resources, memory and a controller which is coupled to the multiple resources and the memory. The controller operates in accordance with an application stored in the memory to process data elements using different combinations of the multiple resources. In particular, the application configures the controller to assign a usage field to a data element, process the data element using a combination of the multiple resources, and adjust contents of the assigned usage field to identify particular resources of the combination in order to measure resource usage of the computer and detect patterns of resource usage when processing the data element. The computer can operate in a similar manner to process other data elements in order to obtain resource usage information on a data element by data element basis.