Patent ID: 6922825

Claim:
A system analysis apparatus analyzing a system containing one or a plurality of programs, comprising: means for examining, as an access state of a data item in said program, an access type and a number of accesses of the data item in said program; and an analyzer analyzing degree of association relationships between processes and data items based on the access type and the number of accesses of the data item, each said process being at least one of a program, a set of programs and a program section, wherein said analyzer further comprises: means for quantifying the type of access to the data item and the number of accesses, as recorded separately for each process, which are included in said data item access state, and generating quantified data item access state data of each process in said program; means for collecting processes that access to a data item satisfying a predetermined condition in said quantified data item access state data; and means for presenting at least one of a partitioning pattern of the data items and a division pattern of the processes, using the quantified data item access state data and the corrected processes.