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ISSTA
2012
ACM
12 years 5 days ago
Finding errors in multithreaded GUI applications
To keep a Graphical User Interface (GUI) responsive and active, a GUI application often has a main UI thread (or event dispatching thread) and spawns separate threads to handle le...
Sai Zhang, Hao Lü, Michael D. Ernst
WWW
2009
ACM
14 years 10 months ago
MASTH proxy: an extensible platform for web overload control
Many overload control mechanisms for Web based applications aim to prevent overload by setting limits on factors such as admitted load, number of server threads, buffer size. For ...
Vipul Mathur, Sanket Dhopeshwarkar, Varsha Apte
EUROSYS
2008
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
30 seconds is not enough!: a study of operating system timer usage
The basic system timer facilities used by applications and OS kernels for scheduling timeouts and periodic activities have remained largely unchanged for decades, while hardware a...
Simon Peter, Andrew Baumann, Timothy Roscoe, Paul ...
EUROSYS
2008
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
Task activity vectors: a new metric for temperature-aware scheduling
Non-uniform utilization of functional units in combination with hardware mechanisms such as clock gating leads to different power consumptions in different parts of a processor ch...
Andreas Merkel, Frank Bellosa
ARCS
2009
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Empirical Performance Models for Java Workloads
Abstract. Java is widely deployed on a variety of processor architectures. Consequently, an understanding of microarchitecture level Java performance is critical to optimize curren...
Pradeep Rao, Kazuaki Murakami