An architectural framework for detecting process hangs/crashes

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

Volumn 3463, Issue , 2005, Pages 103-121

  Nakka, Nithin ^a   Saggese, Giacinto Paolo ^a   Kalbarczyk, Zbigniew ^a   Iyer, Ravishankar K ^a  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CODES (SYMBOLS); COMPUTER AIDED INSTRUCTION; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER HARDWARE; COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; COMPUTER SCIENCE; DATA STORAGE EQUIPMENT; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; ERROR DETECTION;

HANG DETECTION; IN-PROCESSOR HARDWARE MODULES; INSTRUCTION COUNT HEARTBEAT (ICH); SEQUENTIAL CODE HANG DETECTORS (SCHD);

COMPUTER SYSTEM RECOVERY;

EID: 24944573594     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/11408901_8     Document Type: Conference Paper

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