Fast restore of checkpointed memory using working set estimation

ACM SIGPLAN Notices

Volumn 46, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 87-98

  Zhang, Irene ^a   Garthwaite, Alex ^a   Baskakov, Yury ^a   Barr, Kenneth C ^a  

^a VMWARE INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Checkpoint restore; Performance

Indexed keywords

CHECKPOINT/RESTORE; MEMORY SIZE; MEMORY TRACING; NORMAL OPERATIONS; PERFORMANCE; PERFORMANCE DEGRADATION; PERFORMANCE IMPACT; PERFORMANCE METRICS; PERSISTENT STORAGE; POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS; PREFETCHING; USER EXPERIENCE; VIRTUAL MACHINES; WORKING SET;

DEGRADATION; ESTIMATION;

RESTORATION;

EID: 80053541414     PISSN: 15232867     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/2007477.1952695     Document Type: Article

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