Gang Scheduling with Memory Considerations

  • Authors:
  • Anat Batat

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • IPDPS '00 Proceedings of the 14th International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing
  • Year:
  • 2000

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Abstract

A major problem with time slicing on parallel machines is memory pressure, as the resulting paging activity damages the synchronism among a job's processes. An alternative is to impose admission controls, and only admit jobs that fit into the available memory. Despite suffering from delayed execution, this leads to better overall performance by preventing the harmful effects of paging and thrashing.