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EUROSYS
2009
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Migrating server storage to SSDs: analysis of tradeoffs
Recently, flash-based solid-state drives (SSDs) have become standard options for laptop and desktop storage, but their impact on enterprise server storage has not been studied. P...
Dushyanth Narayanan, Eno Thereska, Austin Donnelly...
EUROSYS
2009
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Dingo: taming device drivers
Device drivers are notorious for being a major source of failure in operating systems. In analysing a sample of real defects in Linux drivers, we found that a large proportion (39...
Leonid Ryzhyk, Peter Chubb, Ihor Kuz, Gernot Heise...
EUROSYS
2009
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Tralfamadore: unifying source code and execution experience
Program source is an intermediate representation of software; it lies between a developer’s intention and the hardware’s execution. Despite advances in languages and developme...
Geoffrey Lefebvre, Brendan Cully, Michael J. Feele...
EUROSYS
2009
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Isolating web programs in modern browser architectures
Many of today’s web sites contain substantial amounts of client-side code, and consequently, they act more like programs than simple documents. This creates robustness and perfo...
Charles Reis, Steven D. Gribble
EUROSYS
2009
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Koala: a platform for OS-level power management
Managing the power consumption of computing platforms is a complicated problem thanks to a multitude of hardware configuration options and characteristics. Much of the academic r...
David C. Snowdon, Etienne Le Sueur, Stefan M. Pett...
EUROSYS
2009
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Pointless tainting?: evaluating the practicality of pointer tainting
This paper evaluates pointer tainting, an incarnation of Dynamic Information Flow Tracking (DIFT), which has recently become an important technique in system security. Pointer tai...
Asia Slowinska, Herbert Bos
EUROSYS
2009
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Multi-aspect profiling of kernel rootkit behavior
Ryan Riley, Xuxian Jiang, Dongyan Xu
EUROSYS
2009
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
First-aid: surviving and preventing memory management bugs during production runs
Memory bugs in C/C++ programs severely affect system availability and security. This paper presents First-Aid, a lightweight runtime system that survives software failures caused ...
Qi Gao, Wenbin Zhang, Yan Tang, Feng Qin
EUROSYS
2009
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Orchestra: intrusion detection using parallel execution and monitoring of program variants in user-space
In a Multi-Variant Execution Environment (MVEE), several slightly different versions of the same program are executed in lockstep. While this is done, a monitor compares the behav...
Babak Salamat, Todd Jackson, Andreas Gal, Michael ...