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Resourceful: fine-grained resource accounting for explaining service variability

Lucian Carata, Oliver Chick, James Snee, Ripduman Sohan, Andrew Rice, Andy Hopper

September 2014, 12 pages

DOI: 10.48456/tr-859

Abstract

Increasing server utilization in modern datacenters also increases the likelihood of contention on physical resources and unexpected behavior due to side-effects from interfering applications. Existing resource accounting mechanisms are too coarse-grained for allowing services to track the causes of such variations in their execution. We make the case for measuring resource consumption at system-call level and outline the design of Resourceful, a system that offers applications the ability of querying this data at runtime with low overhead, accounting for costs incurred both synchronously and asynchronously after a given call.

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@TechReport{UCAM-CL-TR-859,
  author =	 {Carata, Lucian and Chick, Oliver and Snee, James and Sohan,
          	  Ripduman and Rice, Andrew and Hopper, Andy},
  title = 	 {{Resourceful: fine-grained resource accounting for
         	   explaining service variability}},
  year = 	 2014,
  month = 	 sep,
  url = 	 {https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/techreports/UCAM-CL-TR-859.pdf},
  institution =  {University of Cambridge, Computer Laboratory},
  doi = 	 {10.48456/tr-859},
  number = 	 {UCAM-CL-TR-859}
}