A copy on reference process migration in RHODOS

Author

De Paoli, D. ; Goscinski, A.

Author_Institution

Sch. of Comput. & Math., Deakin Univ., Geelong, Vic., Australia

fYear

1996

fDate

11-13 Jun 1996

Firstpage

100

Lastpage

107

Abstract

Process migration in the RHODOS operating system has been designed to utilise many different strategies and hence to allow their comparison. Copy on reference is one strategy that can be employed to transfer the address space of the migrant process. The report details research into the design, implementation and performance of RHODOS´ copy on reference process migration. Emphasising the modular yet efficient design with which copy on reference process migration in RHODOS takes as little as 96.8 ms to migrate a 100 kilobyte process, whereas using direct copy process migration on the same process takes 275.1 ms

Keywords

client-server systems; local area networks; network operating systems; paged storage; software performance evaluation; workstations; RHODOS operating system; address space transfer; copy on reference process migration; direct copy process migration; modular design; Australia; Costs; Delay; Electronic switching systems; Load management; Mathematics; Operating systems; Processor scheduling; Quality of service; Workstations;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Algorithms & Architectures for Parallel Processing, 1996. ICAPP 96. 1996 IEEE Second International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-3529-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICAPP.1996.562863

Filename

562863