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USENIX
2003
15 years 8 months ago
Robust, Portable I/O Scheduling with the Disk Mimic
We propose a new approach for I/O scheduling that performs on-line simulation of the underlying disk. When simulation is integrated within a system, three key challenges must be a...
Florentina I. Popovici, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, ...
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SOSP
1997
ACM
15 years 8 months ago
Eraser: A Dynamic Data Race Detector for Multi-Threaded Programs
Multi-threaded programming is difficult and error prone. It is easy to make a mistake in synchronization that produces a data race, yet it can be extremely hard to locate this mi...
Stefan Savage, Michael Burrows, Greg Nelson, Patri...
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USENIX
1994
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Application-Controlled File Caching Policies
We considerhowtoimprovetheperformanceof le cachingbyallowinguser-levelcontrolover lecache replacementdecisions. Weusetwo-levelcachemanagement: the kernel allocates physical pages ...
Pei Cao, Edward W. Felten, Kai Li
USENIX
1996
15 years 8 months 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
CORR
2008
Springer
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15 years 7 months ago
Computationally Efficient Estimators for Dimension Reductions Using Stable Random Projections
The method of stable random projections is an efficient tool for computing the l distances using low memory, where 0 < 2 may be viewed as a tuning parameter. This method boil...
Ping Li