Making the “box” transparent: system call performance as a first-class result

Proceedings of the FREENIX Track: 2004 USENIX Annual Technical Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages

  Ruan, Yaoping ^a   Pai, Vivek ^a  

^a Princeton University   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

INFORMATION FILTERING;

APPLICATION LEVEL; APPLICATION PERFORMANCE; INDUSTRY STANDARDS; LATENCY REDUCTION; MONITORING TOOLS; PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS; PERFORMANCE TOOLS; RESOURCE CONTENTION;

PROGRAM DEBUGGING;

EID: 35448972694     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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