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Resource containers: A new facility for resource management
in server systems

Gaurav Banga	Peter Druschel		Jeffrey C. Mogul
Dept. of Computer Science			Western Research Laboratory
Rice University			Compaq Computer Corporation
Houston, TX  77005			Palo Alto, CA  94301
{gaurav,druschel}@cs.rice.edu			mogul@pa.dec.com

• Abstract
• Introduction
• Typical models for high-performance servers
• Shortcomings of current resource management models
  • The distinction between scheduling entities and activities
  • Integrating network processing with resource
    management
  • Consequences of misidentified resource principals
• A new model for resource management
  • Resource containers
  • Containers, processes, and threads
  • Resource containers and CPU scheduling
  • Other resources
  • The resource container hierarchy
  • Operations on resource containers
  • Kernel execution model
  • The use of resource containers
• Performance
  • Prototype implementation
  • Experimental environment
  • Baseline throughput
  • Costs of new primitives
  • Prioritized handling of clients
  • Controlling resource usage of CGI processing
  • Immunity against SYN-flooding
  • Isolation of virtual servers
• Related Work
• Conclusion
• Acknowledgments
• Bibliography
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