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USENIX
1994
13 years 7 months ago
Resolving File Conflicts in the Ficus File System
Ficus is a flexible replication facility with optimistic concurrency control designed to span a wide range of scales and network environments. Optimistic concurrency control provi...
Peter L. Reiher, John S. Heidemann, David Ratner, ...
USENIX
1994
13 years 7 months ago
TreadMarks: Distributed Shared Memory on Standard Workstations and Operating Systems
TreadMarks is a distributed shared memory DSM system for standard Unix systems such as SunOS and Ultrix. This paper presents a performance evaluation of TreadMarks running on Ultr...
Peter J. Keleher, Alan L. Cox, Sandhya Dwarkadas, ...
USENIX
1994
13 years 7 months ago
Large Granularity Cache Coherence for Intermittent Connectivity
To function in mobile computing environments, distributed file systems must cope with networks that are slow, intermittent, or both. Intermittence vitiates the effectiveness of ca...
Lily B. Mummert, Mahadev Satyanarayanan
USENIX
1994
13 years 7 months ago
The Slab Allocator: An Object-Caching Kernel Memory Allocator
This paper presents a comprehensive design overview of the SunOS 5.4 kernel memory allocator. This allocator is based on a set of object-caching primitives that reduce the cost of...
Jeff Bonwick
USENIX
1994
13 years 7 months ago
Reducing File System Latency using a Predictive Approach
Despite impressive advances in file system throughput resulting from technologies such as high-bandwidth networks and disk arrays, file system latency has not improved and in many...
Jim Griffioen, Randy Appleton
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