A Process Checkpoint Evaluation at User Space of Docker Framework on Distributed Computing Infrastructure

Abstract

This paper presents an evaluation of a process migration checkpoint issues, especially the potential collision of resources usage at user level (space) over a distributed computation infrastructure. In particular, within the docker and its container framework when application checkpointing and restore (resume) occurs quite regularly for shared computing resources. This evaluation will be utilized and be part of larger research titled "Modelling Fast User Space Mutual Exclusive (FUTEX) Process Threads in Single-System Image (SSI)". This paper is primarily written from the literature study and simple exploration experiment and are performed to gather preliminary understanding of the potential issues, performance caveats and testbed setup. The continuation future research will involve nondeterministic modelling simulation using Color Petri Net as comparison to the empirical data resulted from the testbed. It is the aim of this paper to serve as an early study of the larger research as an early exploration utilizing docker and container framework.