Nichamon Naksinehaboon, Narate Taerat, Chokchai Leangsuksun, Clayton F. Chandler, Stephen L. ScottAuthors Info & ClaimsThe study of software failures has now become more important since it has been recognized that computer system outages are more due to software faults than due to hardware faults. The phenome- non of "software aging", in which the state of the software ...
Several recent studies have reported the phenomenon of "software aging", one in which the state of a software system degrades with time. This may eventually lead to performance degradation of the software or crash/hang failure or both. "Software ...
As server consolidation using virtual machines (VMs) is carried out, software aging of virtual machine monitors (VMMs) is becoming critical. Since a VMM is fundamental software for running VMs, its performance degradation or crash failure affects all ...
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