Servers, processes and subprocesses: a critical evaluation

Author

Berbers, Yolande ; Verbaeten, Pierre

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Katholieke Univ., Leuven, Belgium

fYear

1990

fDate

22-25 Oct 1990

Firstpage

118

Lastpage

125

Abstract

Distributed operating systems are often structured in a server-oriented way, with some system tasks being performed by server processes. An extended analysis of the servers´ structure is provided along with its implications for the communication system. Small examples, which start from simple servers and become gradually more complex, illustrate the problems encountered when servers are written using a classical sequential process structure. Processes with several threads of control that execute the same code are used to overcome the problems encountered. The Hermix distributed operating system is used as an example to illustrate the use of such a process structure

Keywords

distributed processing; network operating systems; Hermix distributed operating system; communication system; critical evaluation; distributed OS; operating systems; processes; servers; subprocesses; Communication system control; Computer science; File systems; Hardware; Operating systems; Parallel processing; Printers; Resource management; Software performance; Yarn;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information Technology, 1990. 'Next Decade in Information Technology', Proceedings of the 5th Jerusalem Conference on (Cat. No.90TH0326-9)

Conference_Location

Jerusalem

Print_ISBN

0-8186-2078-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/JCIT.1990.128276

Filename

128276