Apparatus and program for controlling loads

• US 20060206900A1
• Filed: 07/06/2005
• Published: 09/14/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 03/10/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: Takahashi, Yoshihiro, Ooyama, Hiroyuki
• Application Number:
  US11/174,508
• Publication Number:
  US 20060206900A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 718/105
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2209/5022 Workload threshold
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/5083 Techniques for rebalancing the load in a distributed system

Abstract

A load control apparatus that enables a server to perform a process at a multiplicity most suitable for improving processing efficiency. A load information acquisition section acquires load information regarding loads on a CPU resource and other resources on the server. On the basis of the load information, a multiplicity determination section calculates an increase in load on each resource caused by increasing the multiplicity of the process which is being performed by the server, and determines a multiplicity by which a load on each of all the resources becomes smaller than or equal to an upper limit value set in advance. A multiplicity control section changes the multiplicity of the process which is being performed by the server to the multiplicity determined by the multiplicity determination section.

Claims

1. A load control apparatus for controlling a load on a server which performs multiplex processing, the apparatus comprising:

a load information acquisition section for acquiring load information regarding loads on a CPU resource and other resources on the server;

a multiplicity determination section for calculating, on the basis of the load information, an increase in load on each resource caused by increasing a multiplicity of a process which is being performed by the server, and for determining, on the basis of the load information, a multiplicity by which a load on each of all the resources becomes smaller than or equal to an upper limit value set in advance; and

a multiplicity control section for changing the multiplicity of the process which is being performed by the server to the multiplicity determined by the multiplicity determination section.

2. The load control apparatus according to claim 1, wherein when a plurality of processes are being performed by the server, the multiplicity determination section selects each process in order as an object for an examination of an increase in multiplicity and determines whether the multiplicity of a selected process can be increased.

3. The load control apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the multiplicity determination section repeats the selection of a process as an object for an examination of an increase in multiplicity until it becomes impossible to increase the multiplicity of any of the plurality of processes.

4. The load control apparatus according to claim 2, wherein:

a maximum multiplicity of each of the plurality of processes which are being performed by the server is set in advance; and

the multiplicity determination section excludes a process which has reached the maximum multiplicity from the examination of an increase in multiplicity.

5. The load control apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the multiplicity determination section selects only a batch process from among processes which are being performed by the server and determines the multiplicity of the batch process.

6. The load control apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

an interval determination section for determining on the basis of the load information whether loads on the other resources are greater than upper limit values, and for calculating, in the case of the loads on the other resources being greater than the upper limit values, intervals corresponding to the other resources; and

an interval control section for giving the server instructions to output requests for processing to the other resources after the elapse of the intervals.

7. A load control program for controlling a load on a server which performs multiplex processing, the program making a computer function as:

a load information acquisition section for acquiring load information regarding loads on a CPU resource and other resources on the server;

a multiplicity determination section for calculating, on the basis of the load information, an increase in load on each resource caused by increasing a multiplicity of a process which is being performed by the server, and for determining, on the basis of the load information, a multiplicity by which a load on each of all the resources becomes smaller than or equal to an upper limit value set in advance; and

a multiplicity control section for changing the multiplicity of the process which is being performed by the server to the multiplicity determined by the multiplicity determination section.

8. A method for controlling a load on a server which performs multiplex processing with a computer, the method comprising the steps of:

acquiring load information regarding loads on a CPU resource and other resources on the server;

calculating, on the basis of the load information, an increase in load on each resource caused by increasing a multiplicity of a process which is being performed by the server, and determining, on the basis of the load information, a multiplicity by which a load on each of all the resources becomes smaller than or equal to an upper limit value set in advance; and

changing the multiplicity of the process which is being performed by the server to the multiplicity determined.