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Overload Behaviour and Protection of Event-Driven Web Servers

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Web Engineering and Peer-to-Peer Computing (NETWORKING 2002)

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Web servers need to be protected from overload, since server overload can lead to low server throughput and high response times experienced by clients. Most architectures for overload protection have been developed for the Apache web server. Event-driven web servers handle many more simultaneous connections than the Apache server. Thus, they exhibit a different behaviour during server overload. In this paper, we study the behaviour of event-driven servers during overload. We show that an overload protection architecture that we developed earlier successfully protects event-driven web servers from overload.

This work is partially funded by the national Swedish Real-Time Systems research initiative ARTES (www.artes.uu.se).

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    Thiemo Voigt

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  1. Istituto IIT, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Via G. Moruzzi, 1, 56124, Pisa, Italy

    Enrico Gregori

  2. Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, 1501 Page Mill Road MS 3U-6, 94303-1126, Palo Alto, CA, USA

    Ludmila Cherkasova

  3. Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione, Politecnico di Milano, Via Ponzio 34/5, 20133, Milano, Italy

    Gianpaolo Cugola

  4. University of Bologna, Via Mura Zamboni 7, 40127, Bologna, Italy

    Fabio Panzieri

  5. Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione, Politecnico di Milano, Piazza Leonardo da Vinci, 32, 20133, Milano, Italy

    Gian Pietro Picco

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Voigt, T. (2002). Overload Behaviour and Protection of Event-Driven Web Servers. In: Gregori, E., Cherkasova, L., Cugola, G., Panzieri, F., Picco, G.P. (eds) Web Engineering and Peer-to-Peer Computing. NETWORKING 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2376. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45745-3_13

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