Chaotic Analysis of Software Aging in Web Server

Author

Jia, Yun-Fei ; Chen, Xiu-E ; Cai, Kai-Yuan

Author_Institution

Dept. of Autom. Control, Beijing Univ. of Aeronaut. & Astronaut.

fYear

2006

fDate

Oct. 2006

Firstpage

117

Lastpage

120

Abstract

Recently, a kind of phenomenon known as software aging has been reported in many studies, characterized by progressive performance degradation or abrupt crash/hang. Software aging is directly related to resources usage. In this paper, we set up an experimental platform with multi-clients, collect data on system resource usage on Web server and log data on performance on client. It is observed that there is performance degradation while the amount of available memory remains constant. Results show that there is significant correlation between response time and buffer. Finally, we calculate the largest Lyapunov exponent of time series of average load, and results show that software aging process is chaotic

Keywords

Internet; Lyapunov methods; client-server systems; resource allocation; software maintenance; Lyapunov exponent; Web server; chaotic analysis software aging; log data; performance degradation; system resource usage; time series; Aging; Chaos; Computer crashes; Degradation; Delay; Middleware; Performance analysis; Software performance; Software testing; Web server;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Service-Oriented System Engineering, 2006. SOSE '06. Second IEEE International Workshop

Conference_Location

Shanghai

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2726-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SOSE.2006.10

Filename

4027126