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 Just like our previous data collection programs, our new AppGrader posts the data to our database. ​ After creating the appropriate database tables, we put our applications on several phones. Just like our previous data collection programs, our new AppGrader posts the data to our database. ​ After creating the appropriate database tables, we put our applications on several phones.
  
 +During this time, we also attempted to collect network information from the procfs, but were unsuccessful,​ as procfs only records system wide stats. ​ We also attempted to collect data on I/O to the solid state drive, but were unsuccessful as the android kernel was apparently compiled without CONFIG_TASKSTATS flag set, so the io pseudo file is not available to us on Android phones like it is in Linux. ​ We found one UNIX application,​ pidinfo, that get displays per process file I/O information,​ but upon inspecting the tools source code, we learned that pidinfo also relies on the io pseudo file in procfs.
  
 +We spent a great deal of time trying to recompile the kernel with the CONFIG_TASKSTATS so we could get the I/O info.  We feel like we're close to figuring it out, but the phones hang when we flash them with the new kernel.
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 +In an effort to evaluate our grading program, several of us used the same applications for a set period of time and we recorded the grades. ​ Then we used the applications again while running the "​counter program"​ in the background. ​ We found some correlation between the speed at which the counter runs and the grades assigned by our program.
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