Summary: Remote Profiling of Resource Constraints of Web Servers Using
Mini-Flash Crowds
Pratap Ramamurthy
UW-Madison
Vyas Sekar
CMU
Aditya Akella
UW-Madison
Balachander Krishnamurthy
AT&T­Labs Research
Anees Shaikh
IBM Research
Abstract
Unexpected surges in Web request traffic can exercise
server-side resources (e.g., access bandwidth, process-
ing, storage etc.) in undesirable ways. Administra-
tors today do not have requisite tools to understand the
impact of such "flash crowds" on their servers. Most
Web servers either rely on over-provisioning and admis-
sion control, or use potentially expensive solutions like

Source: Akella, Aditya - Department of Computer Sciences, University of Wisconsin at Madison

Collections: Computer Technologies and Information Sciences