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SIGMETRICS
1998
ACM
13 years 4 months ago
Internet service performance failure detection
The increasing complexity of computer networks and our increasing dependence on them means enforcing reliability requirements is both more challenging and more critical. The expan...
Amy R. Ward, Peter W. Glynn, Kathy J. Richardson
SIGMETRICS
1998
ACM
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httperf - a tool for measuring web server performance
This paper describes httperf, a tool for measuring web server performance. It provides a flexible facility for generating various HTTP workloads and for measuring server performa...
David Mosberger, Tai Jin
SIGMETRICS
1998
ACM
13 years 4 months ago
Modelling with Generalized Stochastic Petri Nets
Marco Ajmone Marsan, Gianfranco Balbo, Gianni Cont...
SIGMETRICS
1998
ACM
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Better operating system features for faster network servers
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...
Gaurav Banga, Peter Druschel, Jeffrey C. Mogul
SIGMETRICS
1998
ACM
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On Calibrating Measurements of Packet Transit Times
We discuss the problem of detecting errors in measurements of the total delay experienced by packets transmitted through a wide-area network. We assume that we have measurements o...
Vern Paxson
SIGMETRICS
1998
ACM
13 years 4 months ago
Scheduling with Implicit Information in Distributed Systems
Implicitcoscheduling is a distributed algorithm fortime-sharing communicating processes in a cluster of workstations. By observing and reacting to implicit information, local sche...
Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, David E. Culler, Alan M....
SIGMETRICS
1998
ACM
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Improving TCP Throughput over Two-Way Asymmetric Links: Analysis and Solutions
Lampros Kalampoukas, Anujan Varma, K. K. Ramakrish...
SIGMETRICS
1998
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
Self-Similarity in File Systems
We demonstrate that high-level le system events exhibit selfsimilar behaviour, but only for short-term time scales of approximately under a day. We do so through the analysis of f...
Steven D. Gribble, Gurmeet Singh Manku, Drew S. Ro...
SIGMETRICS
1998
ACM
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Implementing Cooperative Prefetching and Caching in a Globally-Managed Memory System
This paper presents cooperative prefetching and caching — the use of network-wide global resources (memories, CPUs, and disks) to support prefetching and caching in the presence...
Geoffrey M. Voelker, Eric J. Anderson, Tracy Kimbr...
SIGMETRICS
1998
ACM
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An Analytic Behavior Model for Disk Drives with Readahead Caches and Request Reordering
Modern disk drives read-ahead data and reorder incoming requests in a workload-dependent fashion. This improves their performance, but makes simple analytical models of them inade...
Elizabeth A. M. Shriver, Arif Merchant, John Wilke...