Swala: Cooperative Caching of Dynamic Content on a Distributed Web Server

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Swala Cooperative Caching of Dynamic Content on a Distributed Web Server

Talk Outline

Introduction Dynamic Requests

Motivation Access Log Analysis

Motivation Summary of Log Analysis

Motivation Benefit of Result Caching

Motivation Response Time Histogram

Motivation Analysis Conclusions

Design Swala Architecture

Design Request Execution Control Flow

Design Cache Table Consistency

Design Impact of Inter-node Consistency Protocol

Experiments Implementation and Configuration

Experiments Experimental Goals

Experiments Overhead of CGI Execution

Experiments Multi-node Performance of Swala

Experiments Comparison of Local & Coop. Caching

Experiments Cache Miss and Insertion Cost

Experiments Cache Directory Maintenance Cost

Experiments Summary

Related Work

Contributions and Future Work

Author: Ben Smith, Vegard Holmedahl

Email: besmith@cs.ucsb.edu

Home Page: http://www.cs.ucsb.edu/research/swala/

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