Patent ID: 8042101
Filing Date: 2011-10-18
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A program execution state monitoring method using a plurality of computers communicatively coupled to each other for acquiring a plurality of time values associated with a program execution state of a program executed on one of the plurality of computers at intervals related to a plurality of items corresponding to a plurality of item values and stored in a storage device, the method comprising the steps of: storing in the storage device a first group related to each of the plurality of items and consisting of at least one of the plurality of item values; when, on one of the plurality of computers, at least one of the plurality of item values does not satisfy a condition related to a respective first item of the plurality of items and stored in the storage device, deriving, by each of the plurality of computers, a second group related to a second item different from the first item; when the second group includes items having intervals smaller than a first value set for an interval of each of the items, changing, by each of the plurality of computers, the intervals of the respective items to the first value; and decreasing, by each of the plurality of computers, the interval of each of the items belonging to the group related to the first item at the same time of changing the intervals of the respective items to the first value.