Debugging Nondeterministic Failures in Linux Programs through Replay Analysis

Table 1

Test application scenarios.

Program	Description	Workload
lame	A high-quality MPEG Audio Layer III (MP3) encoder	Encode a 3.5-minute (7751 frames)  .wav file
GNU bc	An arbitrary precision numeric processing language calculator	Load the math library and process an input file containing mathematical operations
vim	Vim 7.3 text editor	Open an existing text file in vim, and append an eight-character string 10,000 times
bzip2	A high-quality data compression/decompression utility	Decompress Linux-3.0.1.tar.bz2 of size 73.1 MB
netperf-TCP_STREAM	Networking performance measuring benchmark	TCP_STREAM test between the local host and a remote host for 60 secs with default window size
netperf-TCP_RR	Networking performance measuring benchmark	TCP request/response test between the local host and a remote host for 10 secs