Analyzing the overload behavior of a simple web server

Proceedings of 4th Annual Linux Showcase and Conference 2000, ALS 2000

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages

  Provos, Niels ^a   Lever, Chuck ^a,b   Tweedie, Stephen ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b AOL Netscape

^c Red Hat Software ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SCALABILITY; WEB SERVICES;

BULK SYSTEM; MEASURING SYSTEMS; MULTIPLE CONNECTIONS; OVERLOAD BEHAVIORS; REAL TIME SIGNAL; SCALABILITY AND PERFORMANCE; TRADITIONAL MODELS; WEB SERVERS;

LINUX;

EID: 6344232869     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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