Patent ID: 7089558

Claim:
A system for the collection and analysis of computer system capacity data in a partitioned computer system having a computer system first partition and a computer system second partition, the system comprising: a network; a partitioned computer system in communication with the network wherein the partitioned computer system includes instructions to execute a method comprising the steps of: a) an analysis application running in a computer system second partition obtaining throughput information of a computer system first partition by way of a shared portion of memory, the shared portion of memory programmably accessible to both partitions, the shared memory for transferring information between the computer system first partition and the computer system second partition; b) the analysis application obtaining resource utilization information of the computer system first partition by way of a shared portion of memory; c) the analysis application calculating a resource control parameter using the resource utilization information obtained and the throughput information obtained, the resource control parameter comprising curve fitted throughput information as a function of resource utilization, wherein the curve fitted throughput information is derived from the throughput information obtained; d) providing the resource control parameter to a user agent, the resource control parameter indicating real time resource performance; and e) the user agent displaying the resource control parameter at a terminal.