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USENIX
2001
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Page Replacement in Linux 2.4 Memory Management
While the virtual memory management in Linux 2.2 has decent performance for many workloads, it suffers from a number of problems. The first part of this paper contains a descripti...
Rik van Riel
101
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USENIX
2001
15 years 4 months ago
MEF: Malicious Email Filter - A UNIX Mail Filter That Detects Malicious Windows Executables
We present Malicious Email Filter, MEF, a freely distributed malicious binary filter incorporated into Procmail that can detect malicious Windows attachments by integrating with a...
Matthew G. Schultz, Eleazar Eskin, Erez Zadok, Man...
96
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USENIX
2001
15 years 4 months ago
Kqueue - A Generic and Scalable Event Notification Facility
Applications running on a UNIX platform need to be notified when some activity occurs on a socket or other descriptor, and this is traditionally done with the select() or poll() s...
Jonathan Lemon
108
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USENIX
2001
15 years 4 months ago
Pragmatic Nonblocking Synchronization for Real-Time Systems
We present a pragmatic methodology for designing nonblocking real-time systems. Our methodology uses a combination of lock-free and wait-free synchronization techniques and clearl...
Michael Hohmuth, Hermann Härtig
125
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USENIX
2001
15 years 4 months ago
Improving the FreeBSD SMP Implementation
UNIX-derived operating systems have traditionally have a simplistic approach to process synchronization which is unsuited to multiprocessor application. Initial FreeBSD SMP suppor...
Greg Lehey
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