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Web-conscious storage management for Web proxies
- Source :
- IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking. 10:735-748
- Publication Year :
- 2002
- Publisher :
- Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2002.
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Abstract
- Many proxy servers are limited by their file I/O needs. Even when a proxy is configured with sufficient I/O hardware, the file system software often fails to provide the available bandwidth to the proxy processes. Although specialized file systems may offer a significant improvement and overcome these limitations, we believe that user-level disk management on top of industry-standard file systems can offer similar performance advantages. In this paper, we study the overheads associated with file I/O in web proxies, we investigate their underlying causes, and we propose Web-Conscious Storage Management, a set of techniques that exploit the unique reference characteristics of web-page accesses in order to allow web proxies to overcome file I/O limitations. Using realistic trace-driven simulations, we show that these techniques can improve the proxy's secondary storage I/O throughput by a factor of 15 over traditional open-source proxies, enabling a single disk to serve over 400 (URL-get) operations per second. We demonstrate our approach by implementing Foxy, a web proxy which incorporates our techniques. Experimental evaluation suggests that Foxy outperforms traditional proxies, such as SQUID, by more than a factor of four in throughput, without sacrificing response latency.
Details
- ISSN :
- 10636692
- Volume :
- 10
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........f27ff486a689e60f32a5f7d2b18238bf