Geiger: Monitoring the buffer cache in a virtual machine environment

International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems - ASPLOS

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 14-24

  Jones, Stephen T ^a   Arpaci Dusseau, Andrea C ^a   Arpaci Dusseau, Remzi H ^a  

^a University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

Author keywords

Inference; Virtual machine

Indexed keywords

SEMANTIC GAP; VIRTUAL MACHINE;

COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SEMANTICS; VIRTUAL REALITY;

CACHE MEMORY;

EID: 34547432611     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1168857.1168861     Document Type: Conference Paper

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