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SIGCSE
2005
ACM
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13 years 11 months ago
Experiences teaching operating systems using virtual platforms and linux
Operating system courses teach students much more when they provide hands-on kernel-level project experience with a real operating system. However, enabling a large class of stude...
Jason Nieh, Chris Vaill
USENIX
2000
13 years 7 months ago
Malloc() Performance in a Multithreaded Linux Environment
Network servers make special demands that other types of applications may not make on memory allocators. We describe a simple malloc() microbenchmark suite that tests the ability ...
Chuck Lever, David Boreham
USENIX
2001
13 years 7 months ago
Scalable Linux Scheduling
For most of its existence, Linux has been used primarily as a personal desktop operating system. Yet, in recent times, its use as a cost-efficient alternative to commercial operat...
Stephen Molloy, Peter Honeyman
USENIX
2000
13 years 7 months ago
Scalable Network I/O in Linux
Recent highly publicized benchmarks have suggested that Linux systems do not scale as well as other systems, such as Windows NT, when used as network servers. Windows NT contains ...
Niels Provos, Chuck Lever