Taming the memory hogs: Using compiler-inserted releases to manage physical memory intelligently

Proceedings of the 4th Conference on Symposium on Operating System Design and Implementation, OSDI 2000

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages

  Brown, Angela Demke ^a   Mowry, Todd C ^a  

^a Carnegie Mellon University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NATURAL RESOURCES MANAGEMENT; PROGRAM COMPILERS; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

COMPILER ANALYSIS; DYNAMIC CONDITION; INTERACTIVE APPLICATIONS; PHYSICAL MEMORY; PHYSICAL RESOURCES; REDUCED MEMORY; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT POLICY;

RESPONSE TIME (COMPUTER SYSTEMS);

EID: 84966509749     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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