Patent ID: 8347289

Claim:
A method for determining sample intervals for resource allocations in a dynamic computing system, the method comprising the steps of: collecting measured output data indicative of a performance of said dynamic computing system and of variable workloads of said dynamic computing system; determining whether to start interval tuning of the dynamic computing system by determining when the dynamic computing system is receiving a workload, wherein the dynamic computing system is not ready to start interval tuning when the dynamic computing system is not receiving the workload; and analyzing the measured output data to determine a sample interval for the dynamic computing system, wherein analyzing comprises: separating the measured output data into a first group and a second group, wherein said first group has a smaller standard deviation within the first group relative to said second group; selecting the second group; and determining the sample interval based in part on a desired confidence range, wherein the desired confidence range is an accuracy of a desired maximum difference between a measured sample benefit reflected in said measured output data in said second , group and a statistically real mean benefit.