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USENIX
2008
13 years 11 months ago
LeakSurvivor: Towards Safely Tolerating Memory Leaks for Garbage-Collected Languages
Continuous memory leaks severely hurt program performance and software availability for garbage-collected programs. This paper presents a safe method, called LeakSurvivor, to tole...
Yan Tang, Qi Gao, Feng Qin
USENIX
2008
13 years 11 months ago
Spectator: Detection and Containment of JavaScript Worms
Recent popularity of interactive AJAX-based Web 2.0 applications has given rise to a new breed of security threats: JavaScript worms. In this paper we propose Spectator, the first...
V. Benjamin Livshits, Weidong Cui
USENIX
2008
13 years 11 months ago
Prefetching with Adaptive Cache Culling for Striped Disk Arrays
Conventional prefetching schemes regard prediction accuracy as important because useless data prefetched by a faulty prediction may pollute the cache. If prefetching requires cons...
Sung Hoon Baek, Kyu Ho Park
USENIX
2008
13 years 11 months ago
Protection Strategies for Direct Access to Virtualized I/O Devices
Commodity virtual machine monitors forbid direct access to I/O devices by untrusted guest operating systems in order to provide protection and sharing. However, both I/O memory ma...
Paul Willmann, Scott Rixner, Alan L. Cox
USENIX
2008
13 years 11 months ago
Fast, Inexpensive Content-Addressed Storage in Foundation
Foundation is a preservation system for users' personal, digital artifacts. Foundation preserves all of a user's data and its dependencies--fonts, programs, plugins, ker...
Sean C. Rhea, Russ Cox, Alex Pesterev