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      Getting to Know A-Tune

      Introduction

      An operating system (OS) is basic software that connects applications and hardware. It is critical for users to adjust OS and application configurations and make full use of software and hardware capabilities to achieve optimal service performance. However, numerous workload types and varied applications run on the OS, and the requirements on resources are different. Currently, the application environment composed of hardware and software involves more than 7000 configuration objects. As the service complexity and optimization objects increase, the time cost for optimization increases exponentially. As a result, optimization efficiency decreases sharply. Optimization becomes complex and brings great challenges to users.

      Second, as infrastructure software, the OS provides a large number of software and hardware management capabilities. The capability required varies in different scenarios. Therefore, capabilities need to be enabled or disabled depending on scenarios, and a combination of capabilities will maximize the optimal performance of applications.

      In addition, the actual business embraces hundreds and thousands of scenarios, and each scenario involves a wide variety of hardware configurations for computing, network, and storage. The lab cannot list all applications, business scenarios, and hardware combinations.

      To address the preceding challenges, openEuler launches A-Tune.

      A-Tune is an AI-based engine that optimizes system performance. It uses AI technologies to precisely profile business scenarios, discover and infer business characteristics, so as to make intelligent decisions, match with the optimal system parameter configuration combination, and give recommendations, ensuring the optimal business running status.

      Architecture

      The following figure shows the A-Tune core technical architecture, which consists of intelligent decision-making, system profile, and interaction system.

      • Intelligent decision-making layer: consists of the awareness and decision-making subsystems, which implements intelligent awareness of applications and system optimization decision-making, respectively.
      • System profile layer: consists of the feature engineering and two-layer classification model. The feature engineering is used to automatically select service features, and the two-layer classification model is used to learn and classify service models.
      • Interaction system layer: monitors and configures various system resources and executes optimization policies.

      Supported Features and Service Models

      Supported Features

      Table 1 describes the main features supported by A-Tune, feature maturity, and usage suggestions.

      Table 1 Feature maturity

      Feature

      Maturity

      Usage Suggestion

      Auto optimization of 15 applications in 11 workload types

      Tested

      Pilot

      User-defined profile and service models

      Tested

      Pilot

      Automatic parameter optimization

      Tested

      Pilot

      Supported Service Models

      Based on the workload characteristics of applications, A-Tune classifies services into 11 types. For details about the bottleneck of each type and the applications supported by A-Tune, see Table 2.

      Table 2 Supported workload types and applications

      Service category

      Type

      Bottleneck

      Supported Application

      default

      Default type

      Low resource usage in terms of cpu, memory, network, and I/O

      N/A

      webserver

      Web application

      Bottlenecks of cpu and network

      Nginx, Apache Traffic Server

      database

      Database

      Bottlenecks of cpu, memory, and I/O

      Mongodb, Mysql, Postgresql, Mariadb

      big_data

      Big data

      Bottlenecks of cpu and memory

      Hadoop-hdfs, Hadoop-spark

      middleware

      Middleware framework

      Bottlenecks of cpu and network

      Dubbo

      in-memory_database

      Memory database

      Bottlenecks of memory and I/O

      Redis

      basic-test-suite

      Basic test suite

      Bottlenecks of cpu and memory

      SPECCPU2006, SPECjbb2015

      hpc

      Human genome

      Bottlenecks of cpu, memory, and I/O

      Gatk4

      storage

      Storage

      Bottlenecks of network, and I/O

      Ceph

      virtualization

      Virtualization

      Bottlenecks of cpu, memory, and I/O

      Consumer-cloud, Mariadb

      docker

      Docker

      Bottlenecks of cpu, memory, and I/O

      Mariadb

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      ● Incorrect links, empty cells, or wrong formats;

      ● Chinese characters in English context;

      ● Minor inconsistencies between the UI and descriptions;

      ● Low writing fluency that does not affect understanding;

      ● Incorrect version numbers, including software package names and version numbers on the UI.

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      ● Incorrect or missing key steps;

      ● Missing prerequisites or precautions;

      ● Ambiguous figures, tables, or texts;

      ● Unclear logic, such as missing classifications, items, and steps.

      Correctness

      ● Technical principles, function descriptions, or specifications inconsistent with those of the software;

      ● Incorrect schematic or architecture diagrams;

      ● Incorrect commands or command parameters;

      ● Incorrect code;

      ● Commands inconsistent with the functions;

      ● Wrong screenshots.

      Risk Warnings

      ● Lack of risk warnings for operations that may damage the system or important data.

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      ● Contents that may violate applicable laws and regulations or geo-cultural context-sensitive words and expressions;

      ● Copyright infringement.

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