• DOI:10.1145/263326.263344
Corpus ID: 52861447

Exploiting process lifetime distributions for dynamic load balancing

@article{HarcholBalter1997ExploitingPL,
  title={Exploiting process lifetime distributions for dynamic load balancing},
  author={Mor Harchol-Balter and A. Downey},
  journal={ACM Trans. Comput. Syst.},
  year={1997},
  volume={15},
  pages={253-285}
}

Mor Harchol-Balter, A. Downey

Published 1997

Computer Science

ACM Trans. Comput. Syst.

We consider policies for CPU load balancing in networks of workstations. We address the question of whether preemptive migration (migrating active processes) is necessary, or whether remote execution (migrating processes only at the time of birth) is sufficient for load balancing. We show that resolving this issue is strongly tied to understanding the process lifetime distribution. Our measurements indicate that the distribution of lifetimes for a UNIX process is Pareto (heavy-tailed), with a… CONTINUE READING

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