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USENIX
2008
13 years 7 months ago
LeakSurvivor: Towards Safely Tolerating Memory Leaks for Garbage-Collected Languages
Continuous memory leaks severely hurt program performance and software availability for garbage-collected programs. This paper presents a safe method, called LeakSurvivor, to tole...
Yan Tang, Qi Gao, Feng Qin
USENIX
2008
13 years 7 months ago
Spectator: Detection and Containment of JavaScript Worms
Recent popularity of interactive AJAX-based Web 2.0 applications has given rise to a new breed of security threats: JavaScript worms. In this paper we propose Spectator, the first...
V. Benjamin Livshits, Weidong Cui
USENIX
2008
13 years 7 months ago
Prefetching with Adaptive Cache Culling for Striped Disk Arrays
Conventional prefetching schemes regard prediction accuracy as important because useless data prefetched by a faulty prediction may pollute the cache. If prefetching requires cons...
Sung Hoon Baek, Kyu Ho Park
USENIX
2008
13 years 7 months ago
Protection Strategies for Direct Access to Virtualized I/O Devices
Commodity virtual machine monitors forbid direct access to I/O devices by untrusted guest operating systems in order to provide protection and sharing. However, both I/O memory ma...
Paul Willmann, Scott Rixner, Alan L. Cox
USENIX
2008
13 years 7 months ago
Fast, Inexpensive Content-Addressed Storage in Foundation
Foundation is a preservation system for users' personal, digital artifacts. Foundation preserves all of a user's data and its dependencies--fonts, programs, plugins, ker...
Sean C. Rhea, Russ Cox, Alex Pesterev