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SIGMETRICS
2002
ACM
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Understanding the slowdown of large jobs in an M/GI/1 system
We explore the performance of an M/GI/1 queue under various scheduling policies from the perspective of a new metric: the it slowdown experienced by largest jobs. We consider sche...
Mor Harchol-Balter, Karl Sigman, Adam Wierman
SC
2000
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
ESP: A System Utilization Benchmark
This article describes a new benchmark, called the Effective System Performance (ESP) test, which is designed to measure system-level performance, including such factors as job sc...
Adrian T. Wong, Leonid Oliker, William T. C. Krame...