Matt Chung

Tag: rpc

  • Recovery management in Quicksilver – Notes and Summary

    Recovery management in Quicksilver – Notes and Summary

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    The original paper “Recovery management in quicksilver” introduces a transaction manager that’s responsible for managing servers and coordinates transactions. The below notes discusses how this operating system handles failures and how it makes recovery management a first class citizen. Cleaning up state orphan processes Key Words: Ophaned, breadcrumbs, stateless In client/server systems, state gets created…

  • Distributed Systems – Latency Limits (Notes)

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    Introduction Summary Lamport’s theories provided deterministic execution for non determinism exists due to vagaries of the network. Will discuss techniques to make OS efficient for network communication (interface to kernel and inside the kernel network protocol stack) Latency Quiz Summary What’s the difference between latency and throughput. Latency is 1 minute and throughput is 5…

  • Remote Procedure Call (RPC) notes

    Remote Procedure Call (RPC) notes

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    Remote procedure call (RPC) is a framework offered within operating systems (OS) to develop client/server systems and they promote good software engineering practices and promote logical protection domains . But without careful consideration, RPC calls (unlike simple procedure calls) can be cost prohibitive in terms over overhead incurred when marshaling data from client to server…