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USENIX
1996
13 years 11 months ago
lmbench: Portable Tools for Performance Analysis
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...
Larry W. McVoy, Carl Staelin
USENIX
1996
13 years 11 months ago
A Hierarchical Internet Object Cache
: 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...
USENIX
1996
13 years 11 months 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
USENIX
1996
13 years 11 months ago
Supporting Mobility in MosquitoNet
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...
USENIX
1996
13 years 11 months ago
A Comparison of OS Extension Technologies
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 ...
Christopher Small, Margo I. Seltzer