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USENIX
2000
14 years 11 months ago
Scalable Network I/O in Linux
Recent highly publicized benchmarks have suggested that Linux systems do not scale as well as other systems, such as Windows NT, when used as network servers. Windows NT contains ...
Niels Provos, Chuck Lever
USENIX
2000
14 years 11 months ago
Malloc() Performance in a Multithreaded Linux Environment
Network servers make special demands that other types of applications may not make on memory allocators. We describe a simple malloc() microbenchmark suite that tests the ability ...
Chuck Lever, David Boreham
USENIX
2004
14 years 11 months ago
High Performance X Servers in the Kdrive Architecture
The common usage patterns of 2D drivers for the X Window System have changed over time. New extensions such as Render and Composite are creating new demands for 2D rendering which...
Eric Anholt
ASPLOS
2000
ACM
15 years 2 months ago
An Analysis of Operating System Behavior on a Simultaneous Multithreaded Architecture
This paper presents the first analysis of operating system execution on a simultaneous multithreaded (SMT) processor. While SMT has been studied extensively over the past 6 years,...
Joshua Redstone, Susan J. Eggers, Henry M. Levy
CCGRID
2006
IEEE
15 years 3 months ago
Nexus: A Novel Weighted-Graph-Based Prefetching Algorithm for Metadata Servers in Petabyte-Scale Storage Systems
Abstract— An efficient, accurate and distributed metadataoriented prefetching scheme is critical to the overall performance in large distributed storage systems. In this paper, ...
Peng Gu, Yifeng Zhu, Hong Jiang, Jun Wang