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SIGMETRICS
1998
ACM
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13 years 10 months ago
Better operating system features for faster network servers
Widely-used operating systems provide inadequate support for large-scale Internet server applications. Their algorithms and interfaces fail to e ciently support either event-drive...
Gaurav Banga, Peter Druschel, Jeffrey C. Mogul
USENIX
2000
14 years 5 days 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
OSDI
2006
ACM
14 years 11 months ago
Connection Handoff Policies for TCP Offload Network Interfaces
This paper presents three policies for effectively utilizing TCP offload network interfaces that support connection handoff. These policies allow connection handoff to reduce the ...
Hyong-youb Kim, Scott Rixner
USENIX
1996
14 years 4 days ago
A Performance Comparison of UNIX Operating Systems on the Pentium
This paper evaluates the performance of three popular versions of the UNIX operating system on the x86 architecture: Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris. We evaluate the systems using fre...
Kevin Lai, Mary Baker
HOTOS
1999
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
The Case for Better Throughput Estimation
A Web proxy must accurately predict network performance between itself and its servers and clients in order to make good distillation decisions. In this paper, we show that the cu...
Brian Noble, Li Li, Atul Prakash