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Cluster reserves: a mechanism for resource management in cluster-based network servers


Author(s) : Willy Zwaenepoel Peter Druschel Mohit Aron, 
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Publication Date : 2000
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Abstract : In network (e.g., Web) servers, it is often desirable to isolate the performance of dierent classes of requests from each other. That is, one seeks to achieve that a certain minimal proportion of server resources are available for a class of requests, independent of the load imposed by other requests. Recent work demonstrates how to achieve this performance isolation in servers consisting of a single, centralized node; however, achieving performance isolation in a distributed, cluster based server remains a problem. This paper introduces a new abstraction, the cluster reserve, which represents a resource principal in a cluster based network server. We present a design and evaluate a prototype implementation that extends existing techniques for performance isolation on a single node server to cluster based,