OSDI
1996
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
1996
ACM
Current operating systems offer poor performance when a numeric application's working set does not fit in main memory. As a result, programmers who wish to solve "out-of...
OSDI
1996
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
1996
ACM
This paper makes a case for paths as an explicit abstraction in operating system design. Paths provide a unifying infrastructure for several OS mechanisms that have been introduce...
OSDI
1996
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
1996
ACM
OSDI
1994
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
1994
ACM
The energy usage of computer systems is becoming more important, especially for battery operated systems. Displays, disks, and cpus, in that order, use the most energy. Reducing t...
OSDI
1994
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
1994
ACM
Traditional operating systems use a xed LRU-like page replacement policy and centralized frame pool that cannot properly serve all types of memory access patterns of various appli...
OSDI
1994
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
1994
ACM
OSDI
1994
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
1994
ACM
This paper presents lottery scheduling, a novel randomized resource allocation mechanism. Lottery scheduling provides efficient, responsive control over the relative execution rat...
OSDI
1994
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
1994
ACM
We describe the lockingarchitecture of a new operating system, HURRICANE, designed for large scale shared-memory multiprocessors. Many papers already describe kernel lockingtechni...
OSDI
1994
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
1994
ACM
Structural changes, such as file creation and block allocation, have consistently been identified as file system performance problems in many user environments. We compare several...
OSDI
1994
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
1994
ACM
A fine-grain parallel program is one in which processes are typically small, ranging from a few to a few hundred instructions. Fine-grain parallelism arises naturally in many situ...