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USENIX
1996
14 years 23 days ago
Scalability in the XFS File System
Adam Sweeney, Doug Doucette, Wei Hu, Curtis Anders...
USENIX
1996
14 years 23 days ago
A Comparison of FFS Disk Allocation Policies
Keith A. Smith, Margo I. Seltzer
USENIX
1996
14 years 23 days ago
A Comparison of OS Extension Technologies
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
USENIX
1996
14 years 23 days ago
Transparent Fault Tolerance for Parallel Applications on Networks of Workstations
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
USENIX
1996
14 years 23 days ago
AFRAID - A Frequently Redundant Array of Independent Disks
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
USENIX
1996
14 years 23 days ago
lmbench: Portable Tools for Performance Analysis
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
USENIX
1996
14 years 23 days ago
A Performance Comparison of UNIX Operating Systems on the Pentium
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
USENIX
1996
14 years 23 days ago
World Wide Web Cache Consistency
James Gwertzman, Margo I. Seltzer