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USENIX
2000
14 years 1 months 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
USENIX
2000
14 years 1 months ago
Malloc() Performance in a Multithreaded Linux Environment
Network servers make special demands that other types of applications may not make on memory allocators. We describe a simple malloc() microbenchmark suite that tests the ability ...
Chuck Lever, David Boreham
USENIX
2001
14 years 1 months ago
Scalable Linux Scheduling
For most of its existence, Linux has been used primarily as a personal desktop operating system. Yet, in recent times, its use as a cost-efficient alternative to commercial operat...
Stephen Molloy, Peter Honeyman
SIGMETRICS
2005
ACM
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14 years 6 months ago
Evaluating the impact of simultaneous multithreading on network servers using real hardware
This paper examines the performance of simultaneous multithreading (SMT) for network servers using actual hardware, multiple network server applications, and several workloads. Us...
Yaoping Ruan, Vivek S. Pai, Erich M. Nahum, John M...
LCN
2006
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Minimizing Cache Misses in an Event-driven Network Server: A Case Study of TUX
We analyze the performance of CPU-bound network servers and demonstrate experimentally that the degradation in the performance of these servers under highconcurrency workloads is ...
Sapan Bhatia, Charles Consel, Julia L. Lawall
BROADCOM
2008
IEEE
14 years 7 months ago
A Roadmap to Proliferate Open Source Software Usage within SA Government Servers
Open Source software (OSS) is increasingly being recognized by the government sector around the world as a viable choice to proprietary software, particularly in a number of areas...
Jabu Mtsweni, Elmarie Biermann