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2004
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Buttress: A Toolkit for Flexible and High Fidelity I/O Benchmarking
In benchmarking I/O systems, it is important to generate, accurately, the I/O access pattern that one is intending to generate. However, timing accuracy ( issuing I/Os at the desi...
Eric Anderson, Mahesh Kallahalla, Mustafa Uysal, R...
LISA
2004
15 years 8 months ago
Gatekeeper: Monitoring Auto-Start Extensibility Points (ASEPs) for Spyware Management
Spyware is a rapidly spreading problem for PC users causing significant impact on system stability and privacy concerns. It attaches to extensibility points in the system to ensur...
Yi-Min Wang, Roussi Roussev, Chad Verbowski, Aaron...
USENIX
2001
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Improving the FreeBSD SMP Implementation
UNIX-derived operating systems have traditionally have a simplistic approach to process synchronization which is unsuited to multiprocessor application. Initial FreeBSD SMP suppor...
Greg Lehey
USENIX
2003
15 years 8 months ago
Kernel Support for Faster Web Proxies
This paper proposes two mechanisms for reducing the communication-related overheads of Web applications. One mechanism is user-level connection tracking, which allows an applicati...
Marcel-Catalin Rosu, Daniela Rosu
DAGSTUHL
1993
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Supporting continuous media applications in a micro-kernel environment
Currently, popular operating systems are unable to support the end-toend real-time requirements of distributed continuous media. Furthermore, the integration of continuous media c...
Geoff Coulson, Gordon S. Blair, Philippe Robin, Do...