In this paper we present a comparative experimental study of the main software rejuvenation techniques developed so far to mitigate the software aging effects. We consider six different rejuvenation techniques with different levels of granularity: (i) physical node reboot, (ii) virtual machine reboot, (iii) OS reboot, (iv) fast OS reboot, (v) standalone application restart, and (vi) application...

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Background Urology trainees experience high burnout, and there is an urgent need for acceptable effective interventions. The current study evaluated Reboot coaching workshops (Reboot-C), a tailored intervention based on cognitive–behavioural principles, with urology trainees. Objective Our primary objective was to evaluate the acceptability of Reboot-C among In addition, this aimed investigate ...

With the growth of Internet, “always on” services are becoming increasingly important. Software rejuvenation is a well-known proactive technique to prevent failures due to software aging and extend the lifetime of longrunning software such as Internet Servers, billing systems, telecommunication switches [1]. However, doing a machine reboot to rejuvenate takes time in the order of minutes and ca...

This paper introduces guaranteed data lifetime, a novel system property ensuring that sensitive data cannot be retrieved from a system beyond a specified time. The trivial way to achieve this is to “reboot”; however, this is disruptive from the user’s perspective, and may not even eliminate disk copies. We discuss an alternate approach based on state re-incarnation where data expiry is complete...