Gang Scheduling with Memory Considerations

A major problem with time slicing on parallel machines is memory pressure, as the resulting paging activity damages the synchronism among a job’s processes. An alternative is to impose admission controls, and only admit jobs that fit into the available memory. Despite suffering from delayed execution, this leads to better overall performance by preventing the harmful effects of paging and thrashing.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2000
• Where: IPPS
• Authors: Anat Batat, Dror G. Feitelson
• Keywords: Better Overall Performance, Distributed And Parallel Computing, IPPS 2000, Memory Pressure, Paging Activity