Performance issues in the operating system for the page-based distributed shared memory machine

Author

Kim, Hae-Jin ; Han, Dong-Soo

Author_Institution

Inf. & Commun. Univ., Taejon, South Korea

Volume

2

fYear

1999

fDate

36495

Firstpage

1075

Abstract

The operating system in a page-based distributed shared memory (DSM) system gives the illusion to the users that the entire cluster of computers is a single system. In this paper, we track the performance issues in the UnixWare2/mk operating system that was developed for a page-based DSM machine. Firstly, we examine the design philosophy and the implementation details of the operating system. Then we address the performance issues in the operating system for the page-based DSM by showing the performance results of the following well-known benchmark programs: Ousterhout, Bonnie, and Networking Benchmark

Keywords

Unix; distributed shared memory systems; paged storage; software performance evaluation; Bonnie; Networking Benchmark; Ousterhout; UnixWare2/mk operating system; benchmark programs; computer cluster; design philosophy; implementation; operating system performance; page-based distributed shared memory machine; Computer architecture; Computer network reliability; Distributed computing; Fault tolerant systems; File servers; Kernel; Multiprocessor interconnection networks; Operating systems; Resource management; Streaming media;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

TENCON 99. Proceedings of the IEEE Region 10 Conference

Conference_Location

Cheju Island

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5739-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/TENCON.1999.818609

Filename

818609