Flash: An efficient and portable Web server

Proceedings of the 1999 USENIX Annual Technical Conference

Volumn , Issue , 1999, Pages

  Pai, Vivek S ^a   Druschel, Peter ^a   Zwaenepoel, Willy ^a  

^a Rice University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

WEB SERVICES;

EVENT-DRIVEN; FLASH WEB SERVER; MULTI-PROCESSES; MULTITHREADED; REAL WORKLOADS; SINGLE PROCESS; WEB SERVER ARCHITECTURE; WEB SERVERS;

MEMORY ARCHITECTURE;

EID: 85084160127     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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