Metodologia para classificação de padrões de consumo de memória no linux baseada em mapas auto-organizáveis

Abstract

The growth of Linux operating system has taken it to become a worthy competitor to commercial software such as Microsoft s Windows and Sun s Solaris. Although the development and the improvement of several Linux s features, the problem related to Linux out of memory and the current mechanism used to solve it, named as OOM Killer, has brought a long discussion at Linux kernel community. The lack of scientific works related to OOM Killer process selection algorithm motivates this dissertation to propose a mechanism for identifying and classifying memory consumption patterns of Linux applications. Such mechanism is based on a neural network technique known as Self Organizing Maps. The development of a tool based on Self Organizing Maps presented the possibility of applying such approach for memory consumption patterns classification related to Linux applications use cases.