Thats a unique idea.You should consider the following idea to enhance your idea so that it would impact uniquely: Many applications demand availability. Unfortunately, software failures greatly reduce system availability. Prior work on surviving software failures suffers from one or more of the following limitations: required application restructuring, inability to address deterministic software bugs, unsafe speculation on program execution, and long recovery time.    proposes an innovative  safe  technique, called Rx, which can quickly recover programs from many types of software bugs, both deterministic and nondeterministic. Our idea, inspired from allergy treatment in real life, is to rollback the program to a recent checkpoint upon a software failure, and then to reexecute the program in a  modified  environment.  base this idea on the observation that many bugs are correlated with the execution environment, and therefore can be avoided by removing the “allergen” from the environment. Rx requires few to no modifications to applications and provides programmers with additional feedback for bug diagnosis.    have implemented Rx on Linux. Our experiments with five server applications that contain seven bugs of various types show that Rx can survive six out of seven software failures and provide transparent fast recovery within 0.017--0.16 seconds, 21--53 times faster than the whole program restart approach for all but one case (CVS). In contrast, the two tested alternatives, a whole program restart approach and a simple rollback and reexecution without environmental changes, cannot successfully recover the four servers (Squid, Apache, CVS, and ypserv) that contain deterministic bugs, and have only a 40p recovery rate for the server (MySQL) that contains a nondeterministic concurrency bug. Additionally, Rx's checkpointing system is lightight, imposing small time and space overheads.
['Feng Qin', 'Joseph Tucek', 'Yuanyuan Zhou', 'Jagadeesan Sundaresan']
I am writing a research paper on a idea Rx: Treating bugs as allergies—a safe method to survive software failures
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