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SIGMETRICS
1998
ACM
13 years 4 months ago
1998
ACM
Widely-used operating systems provide inadequate support for large-scale Internet server applications. Their algorithms and interfaces fail to e ciently support either event-drive...
USENIX
2000
13 years 6 months ago
2000
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 ...
OSDI
2006
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
2006
ACM
This paper presents three policies for effectively utilizing TCP offload network interfaces that support connection handoff. These policies allow connection handoff to reduce the ...
USENIX
1996
13 years 6 months ago
1996
This paper evaluates the performance of three popular versions of the UNIX operating system on the x86 architecture: Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris. We evaluate the systems using fre...
HOTOS
1999
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
1999
IEEE
A Web proxy must accurately predict network performance between itself and its servers and clients in order to make good distillation decisions. In this paper, we show that the cu...