Migration impact on load balancing-an experience on Amoeba

Author

Zhu, Weiping ; Socko, Piotr

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Queensland Univ., Qld., Australia

fYear

1996

fDate

6-9 Aug. 1996

Firstpage

531

Lastpage

540

Abstract

Load balancing has been extensively studied by simulation and positive results were acheived in most of the research. With the increasing availability of distributed systems, a few experiments have been carried out on different systems. These experimental studies either depend on task initiation or task initiation plus task migration. We present the results of a 0 study of load balancing using a centralized policy to manage the load on a set of processors; it was carried out on an Amoeba system which consists of a set of 386s, linked by 10 Mbps Ethernet. The results on one hand indicate the necessity of a load balancing facility for a distributed system. On the other hand the results question the impact of using process migration to increase system performance under the configuration used in our experiments.

Keywords

local area networks; processor scheduling; resource allocation; 386s; Amoeba; Ethernet; centralized policy; distributed system; distributed systems; load balancing; migration impact; process migration; system performance; task initiation; task migration; Computational modeling; Computer science; Degradation; Distributed computing; Ethernet networks; Load management; Operating systems; Processor scheduling; Resource management; System performance;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

High Performance Distributed Computing, 1996., Proceedings of 5th IEEE International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Syracuse, NY, USA

ISSN

1082-8907

Print_ISBN

0-8186-7582-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/HPDC.1996.546224

Filename

546224