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  1. Proceedings of the 2009 international symposium on Memory management (ISMM '09)
  2. Self-recovery in server programs
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Modeling, analysis and throughput optimization of a generational garbage collector
Garbage collection in the next C++ standard
Investigating the effects of using different nursery sizing policies on performance
Identification of logically related heap regions
Dynamic shape analysis via degree metrics
A new approach to parallelising tracing algorithms
Precise garbage collection for C
Placement optimization using data context collected during garbage collection
A component model of spatial locality
Live heap space analysis for languages with garbage collection
Scalable support for multithreaded applications on dynamic binary instrumentation systems
Self-recovery in server programs
Efficient alias set analysis using SSA form
Two memory allocators that use hints to improve locality
Parametric heap usage analysis for functional programs

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Self-recovery in server programs

Content Provider ACM Digital Library
Author Nagarajan, Vijay Gupta, Rajiv Jeffrey, Dennis
Abstract It is important that long running server programs retain availability amidst software failures. However, server programs do fail and one of the important causes of failures in server programs is due to memory errors. Software bugs in the server code like buffer overflows, integer overflows, etc. are exposed by certain user requests, leading to memory corruption, which can often result in crashes. One safe way of recovering from these crashes is to periodically checkpoint program state and rollback to the most recent checkpoint on a crash. However, checkpointing program state periodically can be quite expensive. Furthermore, since recovery can involve the rolling back of considerable state information in addition to replay of several benign user requests, the throughput and response time of the server can be reduced significantly during rollback recovery. In this paper, we first conducted a detailed study to see how memory corruption propagates in server programs. Our study shows that memory locations that are corrupted during the processing of an user request, generally do not propagate across user requests. On the contrary, the memory locations that are corrupted are generally cleansed automatically, as memory (stack or the heap) gets deallocated or when memory gets overwritten with uncorrupted values. This self cleansing property in server programs led us to believe that recovering from crashes does not necessarily require the expensive roll back of state for recovery. Motivated by this observation, we propose SRS, a technique for self recovery in server programs which takes advantage of self-cleansing to recover from crashes. Those memory locations that are not fully cleansed are restored in a demand driven fashion, which makes SRS very efficient. Thus in SRS, when a crash occurs instead of rolling back to a safe state, the crash is suppressed and the program is made to execute forwards past the crash; we employ a mechanism called crash suppression, to prevent further crashes from recurring as the execution proceeds forwards. Experiments conducted on real world server programs with real bugs, show that in each of the cases the server program could efficiently recover from the crash and the faulty user request was isolated from future benign user requests.
Starting Page 49
Ending Page 58
Page Count 10
File Format PDF
ISBN 9781605583471
DOI 10.1145/1542431.1542439
Language English
Publisher Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Publisher Date 2009-06-19
Publisher Place New York
Access Restriction Subscribed
Subject Keyword Memory propagation Self recovery Self cleansing
Content Type Text
Resource Type Article
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