lmbench is a micro-benchmark suite designed to focus attention on the basic building blocks of many common system applications, such as databases, simulations, software developmen...
: This paper discussesthedesignandperformance of a hierarchical proxy-cache designed to make Internet information systems scale better. The design was motivated by our earlier trac...
Anawat Chankhunthod, Peter B. Danzig, Chuck Neerda...
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...
The goal of the MosquitoNet project is to provide continuous Internet connectivity to mobile hosts. Mobile hosts must be able to take advantage of the best network connectivity av...
Mary Baker, Xinhua Zhao, Stuart Cheshire, Jonathan...
The current trend in operating systems research is to allow applications to dynamically extend the kernel to improve application performance or extend functionality, but the most ...