Resource Overbooking and Application Profiling in Shared Hosting Platforms

In this paper, we present techniques for provisioning CPU and network resources in shared hosting platforms running potentially antagonistic third-party applications. The primary contribution of our work is to demonstrate the feasibility and benefits of overbooking resources in shared platforms. Since an accurate estimate of an application's resource needs is necessary when overbooking resources, we present techniques to profile applications on dedicated nodes, possibly while in service, and use these profiles to guide the placement of application components onto shared nodes. We then propose techniques to overbook cluster resources in a controlled fashion such that the platform can provide performance guarantees to applications even when overbooked. We show how our techniques can be combined with commonly used QoS resource allocation mechanisms to provide application isolation and performance guarantees at run-time. We implement our techniques in a Linux cluster and evaluate the...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2002
• Where: OSDI
• Authors: Bhuvan Urgaonkar, Prashant J. Shenoy, Timothy Roscoe
• Keywords: Antagonistic Third-party Applications, Operating System, OSDI 2002, Performance Guarantees, Useful Resource Guarantees