Straggler root-cause and impact analysis for massive-scale virtualized cloud datacenters

Garraghan, Peter and Ouyang, Xue and Yang, Renyu and McKee, David and Xu, Jie (2019) Straggler root-cause and impact analysis for massive-scale virtualized cloud datacenters. IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, 12 (1). pp. 91-104. ISSN 1939-1374

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Abstract

Increased complexity and scale of virtualized distributed systems has resulted in the manifestation of emergent phenomena substantially affecting overall system performance. This phenomena is known as “Long Tail”, whereby a small proportion of task stragglers significantly impede job completion time. While work focuses on straggler detection and mitigation, there is limited work that empirically studies straggler root-cause and quantifies its impact upon system operation. Such analysis is critical to ascertain in-depth knowledge of straggler occurrence for focusing developmental and research efforts towards solving the Long Tail challenge. This paper provides an empirical analysis of straggler root-cause within virtualized Cloud datacenters; we analyze two large-scale production systems to quantify the frequency and impact stragglers impose, and propose a method for conducting root-cause analysis. Results demonstrate approximately 5% of task stragglers impact 50% of total jobs for batch processes, and 53% of stragglers occur due to high server resource utilization. We leverage these findings to propose a method for extreme straggler detection through a combination of offline execution patterns modeling and online analytic agents to monitor tasks at runtime. Experiments show the approach is capable of detecting stragglers less than 11% into their execution lifecycle with 95% accuracy for short duration jobs.

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IEEE Transactions on Services Computing
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Subjects:
?? cloud computingstragglerdistributed systemsroot-cause analysisdatacenter information systems and managementcomputer science applicationshardware and architecturecomputer networks and communications ??
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82332
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Deposited On:
21 Oct 2016 10:30
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