Getting priorities straight: Improving linux support for database I/O

VLDB 2005 - Proceedings of 31st International Conference on Very Large Data Bases

Volumn 3, Issue , 2005, Pages 1116-1127

  Hall, Christoffer ^a   Bonnet, Philippe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; SERVERS;

ASYNCHRONOUS I/O; I/O SUBMISSION POLICY;

DATABASE SYSTEMS;

EID: 33745629391     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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