Software rejuvenation
In software engineering, software rejuvenation is an approach to help prevent performance degradation and other associated failures related to software aging. This proactive technique was identified as a cost-effective solution during research at the AT&T Bell Laboratories on fault-tolerant software in the 1990s.[1]
There are simple techniques and complex techniques to achieve rejuvenation. The method most individuals are familiar with is the hardware or software reboot. A more technical example would be the web server software Apache's rejuvenation method. Apache implements one form of rejuvenation by killing and recreating processes after serving a certain number of requests.[2] Another technique is to restart virtual machines running in a cloud computing environment.[3]
The IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE) hosted the 5th annual International Workshop on Software Aging and Rejuvenation (woSAR) in 2013. Topics included:
- Design, implementation, and evaluation of rejuvenation mechanisms
- Modeling, analysis, and implementation of rejuvenation scheduling
- Software rejuvenation benchmarking
References
- ^ Cotroneo, D., Natella, R., Pietrantuono, R., and Russo, S. 2014. A survey of software aging and rejuvenation studies. ACM J. Emerg. Technol. Comput. Syst. 10, 1, Article 8 (January 2014), 34 pages.
- ^ Trivedi, K. S. and Vaidyanathan, K. 2007. Software Aging and Rejuvenation. Wiley Encyclopedia of Computer Science and Engineering.
- ^ Dario Bruneo, Salvatore Distefano, Francesco Longo, Antonio Puliafito, Marco Scarpa: Workload-Based Software Rejuvenation in Cloud Systems. IEEE Trans. Computers 62(6): 1072-1085 (2013)[1].