Windows XP kernel crash analysis

LISA 2006 - 20th Large Installation System Administration Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 149-159

  Ganapathi, Archana ^a   Ganapathi, Viji ^a   Patterson, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POPULATION STATISTICS;

CRASH ANALYSIS; CRASH BEHAVIOR; CRASH DATA; DEVICE DRIVER; FAILURE DATA; NETWORK COMPUTING; PRODUCT DEVELOPERS; SYSTEM DEPENDABILITY;

WINDOWS OPERATING SYSTEM;

EID: 64349096733     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (35)

1. Anderson, D., "Public Computing: Reconnecting People to Science," The Conference on Shared Knowledge and the Web, Residencia de Estudiantes, Madrid, Spain, Nov., 2003
2. Broadwell, P., N. Sastry and J. Traupman, "FIG: A Prototype Tool for Online Verification of Recovery Mechanisms," Workshop on Self-Healing, Adaptive and self-MANaged Systems (SHAMAN), New York, NY, June, 2002
3. Brown, A., L. Chung, and D. Patterson, "Including the Human Factor in Dependability Benchmarks," Proc. 2002 DSN Workshop on Dependability Benchmarking, Washington, D.C., June, 2002
4. Brown, A. and M. Seltzer, "Operating System Benchmarking in the Wake of Lmbench: A Case Study of the Performance of NetBSD on the Intel x86 Architecture," Proc. 1997 ACM SIGMETRICS Conference on the Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems, Seattle, WA, June, 1997
5. Forrester, J. and B. Miller, "An Empirical Study of the Robustness of Windows NT Applications Using Random Testing," Proc. 4th USENIX Windows System Symposium, Seattle, WA, Aug., 2000
6. Ganapathi, A. "Why Does Windows Crash?" UC Berkeley Technical Report UCB//CSD-05-1393, May, 2005
7. Ganapathi, A., Y. Wang, N. Lao and J. Wen, "Why PCs are Fragile and What We Can Do About It: A Study of Windows Registry Problems," Proc. International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN-2004), Florence, Italy, June, 2004
8. Ganapathi, A. and D. Patterson, "Crash Data Collection: A Windows Case Study," To Appear in Proc. International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN-2005), Yokohama, Japan, June, 2005
9. Gray, J., "Why Do Computers Stop and What Can Be Done About It?" Symp. on Reliability in Distributed Software and Database Systems, pp. 3-12, 1986
10. Gray, J., "A census of Tandem system availability between 1985 and 1990," Tandem Computers Technical Report 90.1, 1990
11. Gray, J. and A. Szalay, "Where the rubber meets the sky:bridging the gap between databases and science," Microsoft Research TR-2004-110, 2004
12. Kalakech, A., K. Kanoun, Y. Crouzet and J. Arlat, "Benchmarking the dependability of Windows NT4, 2000 and XP," Proc. International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN-2004), Florence, Italy, June, 2004
13. Kalyanakrishnam, M., "Analysis of Failures in Windows NT Systems," Masters Thesis, Technical report CRHC 98-08, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1998
14. Kalyanakrishnam, M., Z. Kalbarczyk, and R. Iyer, "Failure data analysis of a LAN of Windows NT based computers," Proceedings of the 18th IEEE Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems, 1999
15. King, S., G. Dunlap and P. Chen, "Debugging operating systems with time-Traveling virtual machines," Proceedings of the 2005 Annual USENIX Technical Conference, April, 2005
16. Koopman, P., and J. DeVale, "The Exception Handling Effectiveness of POSIX Operating Systems," IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Vol. 26, Num. 9, pp. 837-848, Sept., 2000
17. Lancaster, L. and A. Rowe, "Measuring realworld data availability," Proceedings of LISA 2001, 2001
18. Lee, I. and R. Iyer, "Software Dependability in the Tandem GUARDIAN Operating System," IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Vol. 21, Num. 5, pp. 455-467, May, 1995
19. Levendel, Y., "Defects and Reliability Analysis of Large Software Systems: Field Experience," Digest 19th Fault-Tolerant Computing Symposium, pp. 238-243, June, 1989
20. Maniatis, P., M. Roussopoulos, T. Giuli, D. S. H. Rosenthal, and M. Baker, "The lockss peer-To-peer digital preservation system," ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS), 2004
21. Murphy, B., "Automating Software Failure Reporting," ACM Queue, Vol. 2, Num. 8, Nov., 2004
22. Murphy, B. and T. Gent, "Measuring system and software reliability using an automated data collection process," Quality and Reliability Engineering International, Vol. 11, 1995
23. Oppenheimer, D., A. Brown, J. Traupman, P. Broadwell, and D. Patterson, "Practical issues in dependability benchmarking," Workshop on Evaluating and Architecting System dependabilitY (EASY ?02), San Jose, CA, Oct., 2002
24. Schroeder, M. and J. Saltzer, "A Hardware Architecture for Implementing Protection Rings," Communications of the ACM, Vol. 15, Num. 3, pp. 157-170, March, 1972
25. Shelton, C., P. Koopman, K. DeVale, "Robustness Testing of the Microsoft Win32 API," Proc. International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN-2000), New York, June, 2000
26. Simache, C., M. Kaaniche, A. Saidane, "Event log based dependability analysis of Windows NT and 2K systems," Proc. 2002 Pacific Rim International Symposium on Dependable Computing (PRDC?02), pp. 311-315, Tsukuba, Japan, Dec., 2002
27. Sullivan, M. and R. Chillarege, "Software defects and their impact on system availability ? a study of field failures in operating systems," Proceedings of the 21st International Symposium on Fault-Tolerant Computing, 1991
28. Swift, M., Muthukaruppan, B. Bershad, and H. Levy, "Recovering Device Drivers," Proceedings of the 6th ACM/USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation, San Francisco, CA, Dec., 2004
29. Tang, D. and R. Iyer, "Analysis of the VAX/VMS Error Logs in Multicomputer Environments ? A Case Study of Software Dependability," International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, Oct., 1992
30. Thakur, A. and R. Iyer, "Analyze-NOW-An environment for collection and analysis of failures in a network of workstations," IEEE Transactions on Reliability, Vol. R46, Num. 4, 1996
31. Thakur, A., R. Iyer, L. Young and I. Lee, "Analysis of Failures in the Tandem NonStop-UX Operating System," International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering, Oct., 1995
32. Wahbe, R., S. Lucco, T. Anderson, and S. Graham, "Efficient Software-Based Fault Isolation," Proc. Fourteenth ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP), pp. 203-216, December, 1993
33. Welsh, M., D. Culler and E. Brewer, "SEDA, an Architecture for well-conditioned scalable Internet Services," 18th Symposium on Operating System Principles, Chateau Lake Louise, Canada, October, 2001
34. Wilson, D., B. Murphy and L. Spainhower, "Progress on Defining Standardized Classes for Comparing the Dependability of Computer Systems," Proc. DSN 2002 Workshop on Dependability Benchmarking, Washington, D.C., June, 2002
35. Xu, J., Z. Kalbarczyk and R. Iyer, "Networked Windows NT system field failure data analysis," Proceedings of the 1999 Pacific Rim International Symposium on Dependable Computing, 1999