Lazy asynchronous I/O for event-driven servers

Proceedings of the FREENIX Track: 2004 USENIX Annual Technical Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages

  Elmeleegy, Khaled ^a   Chanda, Anupam ^a   Cox, Alan L ^a   Zwaenepoel, Willy ^b  

^a Rice University   (United States)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASYNCHRONOUS I/O; DISK I/O; EVENT-DRIVEN; EVENT-DRIVEN PROGRAMMING; USER LEVELS; WEB SERVERS;

EID: 80053222260     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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