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Journal of Information Science and Engineering, Vol. 22 No. 2, pp. 237-246


Space-Efficient Page-Level Incremental Checkpointing


Junyoung Heo, Sangho Yi, Yookun Cho and Jiman Hong+
School of Computer Science and Engineering 
Seoul National University 
Seoul, 151-742 Korea 
+School of Computer Science and Engineering 
Kwangwoon University 
Seoul, 139-701 Korea


    Incremental checkpointing, which is intended to minimize checkpointing overhead, saves only the modified pages of a process. However, the cumulative size of incremental checkpoints increases at a steady rate over time because a number of updated values may be saved for the same page. In this paper, we present a comprehensive overview of Pickpt, a page-level incremental checkpointing facility. Pickpt provides space-efficient techniques aiming to minimizing the use of disk space. For our experiments, the results showed that the use of disk space using Pickpt was significantly reduced, compared with existing incremental checkpointing.


Keywords: checkpoint and recovery, page-level incremental checkpointing, fault tolerance, Linux Kernel, checkpointing overhead

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