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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

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Transparent Fault Tolerance for Parallel Applications on Networks of Workstations

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This paper describes a new method for providingtransparent fault tolerance for parallel applications on a network of workstations. We have designed our method in the context of sh...

Daniel J. Scales, Monica S. Lam

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AFRAID - A Frequently Redundant Array of Independent Disks

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Disk arrays are commonly designed to ensure that stored data will always be able to withstand a disk failure, but meeting this goal comes at a significant cost in performance. We ...

Stefan Savage, John Wilkes

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lmbench: Portable Tools for Performance Analysis

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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

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Eliminating Receive Livelock in an Interrupt-driven Kernel

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Jeffrey C. Mogul, K. K. Ramakrishnan

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A Performance Comparison of UNIX Operating Systems on the Pentium

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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

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World Wide Web Cache Consistency

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James Gwertzman, Margo I. Seltzer

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