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PLDI
2005
ACM
16 years 6 days ago
Garbage collection without paging
Garbage collection offers numerous software engineering advantages, but interacts poorly with virtual memory managers. Existing garbage collectors require far more pages than the ...
Matthew Hertz, Yi Feng, Emery D. Berger
EUROSYS
2007
ACM
16 years 3 months ago
Tashkent+: memory-aware load balancing and update filtering in replicated databases
We present a memory-aware load balancing (MALB) technique to dispatch transactions to replicas in a replicated database. Our MALB algorithm exploits knowledge of the working sets ...
Sameh Elnikety, Steven G. Dropsho, Willy Zwaenepoe...
COMPCON
1994
IEEE
15 years 10 months ago
Desktop Batch Processing
: Today, online transaction processing applications can downsize from mainframes to microprocessors. Commodity database systems, operating systems, and hardware came of age in 1993...
Jim Gray, Chris Nyberg
EUROPAR
2007
Springer
16 years 25 days ago
Getting 10 Gb/s from Xen: Safe and Fast Device Access from Unprivileged Domains
The networking performance available to Virtual Machines (VMs) can be low due to the inefficiencies of transferring network packets between the host domain and guests. This can lim...
Kieran Mansley, Greg Law, David Riddoch, Guido Bar...
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ACMMSP
2005
ACM
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16 years 7 days ago
A locality-improving dynamic memory allocator
In general-purpose applications, most data is dynamically allocated. The memory manager therefore plays a crucial role in application performance by determining the spatial locali...
Yi Feng, Emery D. Berger