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USENIX
2000
13 years 5 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 ...
USENIX
2000
13 years 5 months ago
2000
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 ...
USENIX
2001
13 years 6 months ago
2001
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...
SIGMETRICS
2005
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
2005
ACM
This paper examines the performance of simultaneous multithreading (SMT) for network servers using actual hardware, multiple network server applications, and several workloads. Us...
LCN
2006
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
2006
IEEE
We analyze the performance of CPU-bound network servers and demonstrate experimentally that the degradation in the performance of these servers under highconcurrency workloads is ...
BROADCOM
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2008
IEEE
Open Source software (OSS) is increasingly being recognized by the government sector around the world as a viable choice to proprietary software, particularly in a number of areas...