Patent ID: 6064950
Filing Date: 2000-05-16
Classification: G06F,Y10S

Abstract:
A method for monitoring load situation in a service database system, the database comprising measurement tables (MT) which comprise consecutive rows (Ri), whereby a single row comprises data related to a single measurement object and the measurement objects of one measurement table are of the same type so that they form a measurement group, the method comprising the steps ofreceiving service requests (SR) into the system during whose processing it is necessary to count the number of events occurring per each measurement object,activating the provision of the service as a response to the service request,performing the recording of events by incrementing the measurement object-specific counters for each different event during the processing of the service request for a time determined by a certain, predefined recording interval, said interval being user-specifiable, andperforming the recording of counter values by storing the measurement object-specific counter values after each recording interval,generating on the basis of the recorded counter values a list which includes a desired number of measurement objects which are largest in respect to the value of a specific counter,characterized in that the method further comprises the steps ofperforming the recording and zeroing of counter values in each recording interval to one measurement object at a time,generating said list by recording interval so that within a recording interval during the processing of each individual object it is checked whether the value of said specific counter is greater than the counter value of the object with the smallest counter value included in the list at the moment and if this is the case, replacing the object with the smallest counter value with the object which corresponds to the row in question, andstoring the generated list at the end of the recording interval at the latest.