Scalability of Linux event-dispatch mechanisms

Proceedings of the 2001 USENIX Annual Technical Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages

  Chandra, Abhishek ^a   Mosberger, David ^b  

^a University of Massachusetts Amherst   (United States)

^b HEWLETT PACKARD LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDIES; HIGH LOAD; HIGH THROUGHPUT; INTERNET SERVERS; LINUX KERNEL; NETWORK I/O; REAL TIME SIGNAL;

LINUX;

EID: 85084164405     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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