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OSDI
1994
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Storage Alternatives for Mobile Computers
Mobile computers such as notebooks, subnotebooks, and palmtops require low weight, low power consumption, and good interactive performance. These requirements impose many challeng...
Fred Douglis, Ramón Cáceres, M. Fran...
OSDI
1994
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Lottery Scheduling: Flexible Proportional-Share Resource Management
This paper presents lottery scheduling, a novel randomized resource allocation mechanism. Lottery scheduling provides efficient, responsive control over the relative execution rat...
Carl A. Waldspurger, William E. Weihl
OSDI
1994
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Implementation and Performance of Application-Controlled File Caching
Traditional le system implementations do not allow applications to control le caching replacement decisions. We have implemented two-level replacement, a scheme that allows appl...
Pei Cao, Edward W. Felten, Kai Li
OSDI
1994
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Scheduling for Reduced CPU Energy
The energy usage of computer systems is becoming more important, especially for battery operated systems. Displays, disks, and cpus, in that order, use the most energy. Reducing t...
Mark Weiser, Brent B. Welch, Alan J. Demers, Scott...
OSDI
1994
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Experiences with Locking in a NUMA Multiprocessor Operating System Kernel
We describe the lockingarchitecture of a new operating system, HURRICANE, designed for large scale shared-memory multiprocessors. Many papers already describe kernel lockingtechni...
Ronald C. Unrau, Orran Krieger, Benjamin Gamsa, Mi...
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