《A Self-Adaptive Architecture to Control the Performance of Multi-host Web Servers》.pdf

A Self-Adaptive Architecture to Control the Performance of Multi-host Web Servers
Xiao-zhu LIN , Hai-yan WU , Dong-Xing JIANG , Feng-yuan REN Tsinghua University/Computer and Information Management Center, Beijing, China
Tsinghua University/Dept. of Computer Science, Beijing, China Abstract— In modern web applications, several web sites There are several advantages of theoretic control method often inhabit one single web server, asking for some soft- over heuristic feedback methods. First, theoretic control ware mechanisms to allocate server resources among those methods are based on mathematical models instead of virtual hosts. This paper tries to study this issue from the perspective of control theory. First, solid proofs are shown generic presumptions of systems. Thus it can perform to demonstrate that web servers could hardly be modeled much finer resource management. Second, theoretic con- with fixed parameters, which cast doubt on foundations trol methods enable better dynamic characteristics of of existing parametric web QoS schemes. Furthermore, we systems. Moreover, well-developed theoretic control tech- present the self-adaptive architecture for web servers, whose objective is to perform finer control over the performance while suiting varying run-time conditions of web servers. A series of tests validate the efficiency of our strategy, showing that comparing with QoS schemes based on fixed parameters, self-adaptive architecture tracks demanding re- quest latency more closely, even when run-time environments change dramatically. In ad