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The overhead model of word-level and page-level incremental checkpointing

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Generally, word-level granularity for incremental checkpointing may reduce the checkpoint file size, and hence get better the performance. However, word-level granularity may not always be more efficient than page-level granularity, because word-level granularity may sometimes increase the checkpointing overhead for finding the differences between two checkpoints and for writing the address of the modified word to stable storage. In this paper, we make the overhead model and find factors which produce an effect on the over-head. We also show that the model and the factors are fairly reasonable via experimental results from Linux Kernel-level incremental checkpointing facility.

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SAC '06: Proceedings of the 2006 ACM symposium on Applied computing
April 2006
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ISBN:1595931082
DOI:10.1145/1141277
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  1. checkpoint and recovery
  2. fault tolerance
  3. page-level incremental checkpointing
  4. word-level

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