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USENIX
1993
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Wafe - An X Toolkit Based Frontend for Application Programs in Various Programming Languages
Wafe provides a flexible and easy to use interface to the X Toolkit (Xt) and the Athena widget set (Xaw) using the embeddable command language Tcl [1]. It allows access to Xt’s...
Gustaf Neumann, Stefan Nusser
USENIX
1994
14 years 28 days ago
Reducing File System Latency using a Predictive Approach
Despite impressive advances in file system throughput resulting from technologies such as high-bandwidth networks and disk arrays, file system latency has not improved and in many...
Jim Griffioen, Randy Appleton
USENIX
1994
14 years 28 days ago
The refdbms Distributed Bibliographic Database System
Refdbms is a database system for sharing bibliographic references among many users at sites on a wide-area network such as the Internet. This paper describes our experiences in bu...
Richard A. Golding, Darrell D. E. Long, John Wilke...
USENIX
1993
14 years 28 days ago
A Library Implementation of POSIX Threads under UNIX
Recently, there has been an effort to specify an IEEE standard for portable operating systems for open systems, called POSIX. One part of it, the POSIX 1003.4a threads extension (...
Frank Mueller
USENIX
1994
14 years 28 days ago
cql - A Flat File Database Query Language
cql is a UNIX
Glenn S. Fowler
USENIX
1993
14 years 28 days ago
Measurement, Analysis, and Improvement of UDP/IP Throughput for the DECstation 5000
Networking software is a growing bottleneck in modern workstations, particularly for high throughput applications such as networked digital video. We measure various components of...
Jonathan Kay, Joseph Pasquale
USENIX
1993
14 years 28 days ago
HighLight: Using a Log-structured File System for Tertiary Storage Management
Robotic storage devices offer huge storage capacity at a low cost per byte, but with large access times. Integrating these devices into the storage hierarchy presents a challenge ...
John T. Kohl, Carl Staelin, Michael Stonebraker
USENIX
1994
14 years 28 days ago
Thwarting the Power-Hungry Disk
Fred Douglis, P. Krishnan, Brian Marsh
USENIX
1994
14 years 28 days ago
The Slab Allocator: An Object-Caching Kernel Memory Allocator
This paper presents a comprehensive design overview of the SunOS 5.4 kernel memory allocator. This allocator is based on a set of object-caching primitives that reduce the cost of...
Jeff Bonwick