Software Aging Analysis of the Linux Operating System

Cotroneo, Domenico; Natella, Roberto; Pietrantuono, Roberto; Russo, Stefano

doi:10.1109/issre.2010.24

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“…Cotroneo et al [35] provides a broad investigation of software aging causes in Linux Operating Systems. The adopted approach aims to trace kernel activities to observe possible software aging effects.…”

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SWARE: An approach to support software aging and rejuvenation experiments

Melo

Araújo

Umesh

et al. 2017

JADI

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Abstract-The need for uninterrupted computing services demands for high system availability and reliability. Techniques and methods to estimate and analyze system dependability are essential to support software deployment and maintenance. Soft-ware aging appears as a relevant issue in this context. Software aging is a cumulative process which leads long-running systems to hangs or failures. Software rejuvenation is used to counteract software aging. Software rejuvenation usually comprises system reboot or application restart to bringing software to a stable fresh state. This paper proposes an approach to investigate software aging effects and software rejuvenation effectiveness on a single experiment. The approach has three phases: (i) Stress Phase -stress environment with the accelerated workload to induce bugs activation; (ii) Wait Phase -stop workload submission to observe the system state after workload submission; (iii) Rejuvenation Phase -find the impacts caused by the software rejuvenation. We named our approach as SWARE (Stress-Wait-Rejuvenation). To validate the SWARE approach, we present a case study. This case study consists of an experiment of VM Live Migration as rejuvenation mechanism for VMM software aging. The considered testbed is a Private Cloud with OpenNebula and KVM 1.0. The obtained results show that VM live migration is useful as rejuvenation for VMM software aging.

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Section: ) General Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

SWARE: An approach to support software aging and rejuvenation experiments

Melo

Araújo

Umesh

et al. 2017

JADI

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“…Performance is among points of interest that ought to be accessible in cloud services since performance affects clients and service providers. To assess performance, consider a few criteria to assess components that influence performance of cloud services, including normal reaction per unit time and normal holding up time per unit time and others in properties of performance measures of cloud [57].…”

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Program Aging and Service Crash

Ahamad¹

2016

IJCATR

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Abstract:Program aging is a degradation of performance or functionality caused by resource depletion. The aging affects the cloud services which provide access to big data bank and computing resources. This suffers large budget and delays of defect removal, which requires other related solutions including renewal in the form of controlled restarts. Collection of various runtime metrics are more significant source for further study of detection and analysis of aging issues. This study highlights the method for detecting aging immediately after their introduction by runtime comparisons of different development scenarios. The study focuses on aging of program and service crash as a consequence.

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“…However, they are only effective when the aging effects are confined in the application processes. If the aging effects are accumulating inside the operating system kernel [22,39], then the previous approaches become ineffective. For this reason, it is also important to apply rejuvenation at the OS granularity.…”

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confidence: 99%