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Abstract - Technical Program - OSDI 99
Resource Containers: A New Facility for Resource Management in Server Systems
Gaurav Banga, Peter Druschel, Rice University;
Jeffrey C. Mogul, Western Research Laboratory, Compaq Computer Corp.
Abstract
General-purpose operating systems provide inadequate support for
resource management in large-scale servers. 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. There 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 operating system's notions of protection domain and
resource principal coincide in the process abstraction. This
coincidence prevents a process that manages large numbers of network
connections, for example, from properly allocating system resources
among those connections.
We propose and evaluate a new operating system abstraction called a resource container, which separates the notion of a protection domain from that of a resource principal. Resource containers enable fine-grained resource management in server systems and allow the development of robust servers, with simple and firm control over priority policies.
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