Dynamic memory balancing for virtual machines

Proceedings of the 2009 ACM SIGPLAN/SIGOPS International Conference on Virtual Execution Environments, VEE'09

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 21-30

  Zhao, Weiming ^a   Wang, Zhenlin ^a,b  

^a Michigan Technological University   (United States)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

LRU histogram; Memory balancing; Virtual machine

Indexed keywords

DYNAMIC MEMORY; HARDWARE RESOURCE UTILIZATION; HARDWARE RESOURCES; I/O DEVICE; LOW OVERHEAD; LRU HISTOGRAM; MAIN MEMORY; MEMORY ALLOCATION; MEMORY BALANCING; MEMORY MANAGEMENT; MEMORY REQUIREMENTS; MEMORY USAGE; MULTIPLE OPERATING SYSTEMS; ON THE FLIES; PHYSICAL MEMORY; PHYSICAL RESOURCES; PREDICTION MODEL; PREDICTION SCHEMES; PROCESSOR CORES; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; SYSTEM THROUGHPUT; TIME SLICING; VIRTUAL MACHINE; VIRTUAL MACHINES; VIRTUALIZATION; VIRTUALIZED ENVIRONMENT; WORKING SET;

BALANCING; COMPUTER HARDWARE; RESOURCE ALLOCATION;

COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS;

EID: 67650091429     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1508293.1508297     Document Type: Conference Paper

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