OSDI
1994
ACM
13 years 5 months ago
1994
ACM
The energy usage of computer systems is becoming more important, especially for battery operated systems. Displays, disks, and cpus, in that order, use the most energy. Reducing t...
OSDI
1994
ACM
13 years 5 months ago
1994
ACM
Traditional operating systems use a xed LRU-like page replacement policy and centralized frame pool that cannot properly serve all types of memory access patterns of various appli...
OSDI
1994
ACM
13 years 5 months ago
1994
ACM
OSDI
1994
ACM
13 years 5 months ago
1994
ACM
This paper presents lottery scheduling, a novel randomized resource allocation mechanism. Lottery scheduling provides efficient, responsive control over the relative execution rat...
OSDI
1994
ACM
13 years 5 months ago
1994
ACM
We describe the lockingarchitecture of a new operating system, HURRICANE, designed for large scale shared-memory multiprocessors. Many papers already describe kernel lockingtechni...
OSDI
1994
ACM
13 years 5 months ago
1994
ACM
Structural changes, such as file creation and block allocation, have consistently been identified as file system performance problems in many user environments. We compare several...
OSDI
1994
ACM
13 years 5 months ago
1994
ACM
A fine-grain parallel program is one in which processes are typically small, ranging from a few to a few hundred instructions. Fine-grain parallelism arises naturally in many situ...
OSDI
1994
ACM
13 years 5 months ago
1994
ACM
This paper describes the design and evaluation of SAM, a shared object system for distributed memory machines. SAM is a portable run-time system that provides a global name space ...
OSDI
1994
ACM
13 years 5 months ago
1994
ACM
Mobile computers such as notebooks, subnotebooks, and palmtops require low weight, low power consumption, and good interactive performance. These requirements impose many challeng...
OSDI
1994
ACM
13 years 5 months ago
1994
ACM