Logging Kernel Events on Clusters

  • Tagung:

    Zeitschriftenartikel 

  • Autoren:

    Jürgen Reuter
    Walter F. Tichy 

  • Summary

    We present tools for recording and analysing kernel events on Linux clusters. The tools provide cluster-wide event logging at system clock accuracy. We demonstrate the usefulness of our tools by verifying an implementation of a simple remote scheduling feature with interesting results regarding schedule responsiveness, by analysing local clock drift in a cluster, and by observing the effect of a kernel read-ahead policy upon sequential file read. With our GUI-based Java application, data recorded on multiple hosts is integrated for visualization. These tools can be used for analysis of cluster schedulers such as gang schedulers, SMP scheduling affinity, or the interaction between user level applications and kernel policies such as file read-ahead. Our work can be easily extended for integration with application level logging.
  • Jahr:

    2006 

Beteiligte Mitarbeiter (zufällige Reihenfolge)
Titel Vorname Nachname
Prof. em. Dr. Walter F. Tichy
Dipl.-Inform. Jürgen Reuter
Projekte
Titel
Scheduling

Bibtex

@article{Reuter:2006a,
author={J{\"u}rgen Reuter, Walter F. Tichy},
title={Logging Kernel Events on Clusters},
year=2006,
month=Feb,
publisher={Elsevier Science Publishers B.V. (North-Holland)},
volume={22},
abstract={We present tools for recording and analysing kernel events on Linux clusters. The tools provide cluster-wide event logging at system clock accuracy. We demonstrate the usefulness of our tools by verifying an implementation of a simple remote scheduling feature with interesting results regarding schedule responsiveness, by analysing local clock drift in a cluster, and by observing the effect of a kernel read-ahead policy upon sequential file read. With our GUI-based Java application, data recorded on multiple hosts is integrated for visualization. These tools can be used for analysis of cluster schedulers such as gang schedulers, SMP scheduling affinity, or the interaction between user level applications and kernel policies such as file read-ahead. Our work can be easily extended for integration with application level logging.},
number={3},
pages={313-323},
journal={Future generation computer systems (FGCS 1295)},
address={Amsterdam, NL},
note={
ISSN 0167-739X

 

},
}