Operating system support for server applications

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dc.contributor.advisorDruschel, Peteren_US
dc.creatorBanga, Gauraven_US
dc.date.accessioned2009-06-04T08:30:47Zen_US
dc.date.available2009-06-04T08:30:47Zen_US
dc.date.issued1999en_US
dc.description.abstractGeneral-purpose operating systems provide inadequate support for large-scale servers. Server 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. For example, server applications cannot provide differentiated quality of service to requests from different clients. The root cause of these problems 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 notions of protection domain and resource principal coincide in the process abstraction of current operating systems. Moreover, these operating systems provide insufficient control to an application over the resources that are consumed inside the kernel on behalf of the application. These aspects of current operating systems prevent a server process that manages large numbers of network connections, for example, from properly allocating system resources among those connections. This dissertation addresses the lack of operating system support for fine-grained resource management in large-scale server systems. It starts by characterizing the nature of the mismatch between the design assumptions of current general-purpose operating systems, and the behavior of server applications. The traditional design of core operating system abstractions and APIs is reevaluated in the light of the requirements of server applications. This reevaluation leads to a set of novel operating system abstractions and APIs that serve to provide effective support for server applications.en_US
dc.format.extent228 p.en_US
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen_US
dc.identifier.callnoTHESIS COMP.SCI. 1999 BANGAen_US
dc.identifier.citationBanga, Gaurav. "Operating system support for server applications." (1999) Diss., Rice University. <a href="https://hdl.handle.net/1911/19350">https://hdl.handle.net/1911/19350</a>.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1911/19350en_US
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.rightsCopyright is held by the author, unless otherwise indicated. Permission to reuse, publish, or reproduce the work beyond the bounds of fair use or other exemptions to copyright law must be obtained from the copyright holder.en_US
dc.subjectComputer scienceen_US
dc.titleOperating system support for server applicationsen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
dc.type.materialTexten_US
thesis.degree.departmentComputer Scienceen_US
thesis.degree.disciplineEngineeringen_US
thesis.degree.grantorRice Universityen_US
thesis.degree.levelDoctoralen_US
thesis.degree.nameDoctor of Philosophyen_US
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