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SIGMETRICS
2005
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
2005
ACM
A fundamental challenge in improving the file system performance is to design effective block replacement algorithms to minimize buffer cache misses. Despite the well-known int...
HOTOS
1999
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
1999
IEEE
Several operating systems projects revolve around moving functionality above or below the kernel "red line" to increase flexibility or performance. We describe how a gen...
USENIX
1994
13 years 6 months ago
1994
This paper presents a comprehensive design overview of the SunOS 5.4 kernel memory allocator. This allocator is based on a set of object-caching primitives that reduce the cost of...
EUROSYS
2008
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
2008
ACM
The basic system timer facilities used by applications and OS kernels for scheduling timeouts and periodic activities have remained largely unchanged for decades, while hardware a...
MICRO
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2008
IEEE
It is well recognized that LRU cache-line replacement can be ineffective for applications with large working sets or non-localized memory access patterns. Specifically, in lastle...