High-performance memory-based web servers: Kernel and user-space performance

Proceedings of the 2001 USENIX Annual Technical Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages

  Joubert, Philippe ^a,b   King, Robert B ^a   Neves, Rich ^a,b   Russinovich, Mark ^a,c   Tracey, John M ^a  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b ReefEdge Inc

^c Winternals Software   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HTTP; LINUX; WEB SERVICES;

COMMUNICATION CODES; EVENT NOTIFICATION; KERNEL MODIFICATIONS; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; PERFORMANCE GAIN; PERFORMANCE GAPS; PERFORMANCE OPTIMIZATIONS; WEB SERVER PERFORMANCE;

WINDOWS OPERATING SYSTEM;

EID: 85084161966     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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