NDLI: Reproducing non-deterministic bugs with lightweight recording in production environments

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Nan Wang Jizhong Han Haiping Fu Xubin He Jinyun Fang
Copyright Year	2010
Description	Author affiliation: Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, U.S.A. (Xubin He) \|\| Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China (Nan Wang; Jizhong Han; Haiping Fu; Jinyun Fang)
Abstract	Reproducing non-deterministic bugs is challenging. Recording program execution in production environments and reproducing bugs is an effective way to re-enable cyclic debugging. Unfortunately, most current record-replay approaches introduce large perturbations to either environments and/or execution flow, in addition to performance penalty and high storage overhead, which make them impracticable to be deployed in production environments. This paper presents Snitchaser — a fully user-space record-replay tool which can faithfully reproduce bugs by replaying system calls which are recorded with negligible perturbation and recording overhead. This is achieved by 1) a novel, lightweight system call interception mechanism without patching the binary instructions to reduce the perturbation to execution flow; 2) system call latch to save signal semantic; 3) periodic checkpointing to reduce the storage overhead. Snitchaser focuses on bugs caused by asynchronous events on heavily loaded, high throughput servers. Experimental results show that Snitchaser is capable of reproducing non-deterministic bugs efficiently at nearly no performance penalty. We also present two case studies on dealing with existing bugs in Lighttpd — a popular software used in many large scale systems.
Starting Page	89
Ending Page	96
File Size	263195
Page Count	8
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781424493302
ISSN	10972641
e-ISBN	9781424493296
DOI	10.1109/PCCC.2010.5682332
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2010-12-09
Publisher Place	USA
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Computer bugs Production Debugging Checkpointing Semantics Throughput Hardware
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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