Resource Containers: A New Facility for Resource Management in Server Systems

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Resource Containers: A New Facility for Resource Management in Server Systems (1999)

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by Gaurav Banga , Peter Druschel , Jeffrey C. Mogul

Venue:	In Operating Systems Design and Implementation
Citations:	498 - 10 self

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@INPROCEEDINGS{Banga99resourcecontainers:,
    author = {Gaurav Banga and Peter Druschel and Jeffrey C. Mogul},
    title = {Resource Containers: A New Facility for Resource Management in Server Systems},
    booktitle = {In Operating Systems Design and Implementation},
    year = {1999},
    pages = {45--58}
}

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Abstract

General-purpose operating systems provide inadequate support for resource management in large-scale servers. Applications lack sufficient control over scheduling and management of machine resources, which makes it difficult to enforce priority policies, and to provide robust and controlled service. There is a fundamental mismatch between the original design assumptions underlying the resource management mechanisms of current general-purpose operating systems, and the behavior of modern server applications. In particular, the operating system’s notions of protection domain and resource principal coincide in the process abstraction. This coincidence prevents a process that manages large numbers of network connections, for example, from properly allocating system resources among those connections. We propose and evaluate a new operating system abstraction called a resource container, which separates the notion of a protection domain from that of a resource principal. Resource containers enable fine-grained resource management in server systems and allow the development of robust servers, with simple and firm control over priority policies. 1

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server system resource management resource container new facility priority policy protection domain large number current general-purpose operating system fundamental mismatch resource principal coincide large-scale server resource management mechanism network connection system resource original design assumption robust server modern server application inadequate support controlled service firm control resource principal process abstraction sufficient control operating system notion machine resource new operating system abstraction

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