Using latency to evaluate interactive system performance

2nd USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation, OSDI 1996

Volumn , Issue , 1996, Pages

  Endo, Yasuhiro ^a   Wang, Zheng ^a   Chen, J Bradley ^a   Seltzer, Margo ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PERSONAL COMPUTING; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

ANALYZING SYSTEM; CRITICAL EVENTS; INTERACTIVE APPLICATIONS; INTERACTIVE SYSTEM; MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUES; PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENTS; PRECISE MEASUREMENTS; THROUGHPUT METRICS;

BENCHMARKING;

EID: 85085853731     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/248155.238775     Document Type: Conference Paper

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