Studies of windows NT performance using dynamic execution traces

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

Volumn , Issue , 1996, Pages

  Perl, Sharon E ^a   Sites, Richard L ^a  

^a HEWLETT PACKARD COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; CODES (SYMBOLS); DATA STRUCTURES; LOCKS (FASTENERS); MEMORY ARCHITECTURE; MULTIPROCESSING SYSTEMS; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS; WINDOWS OPERATING SYSTEM;

BANDWIDTH REQUIREMENT; BENCHMARK APPLICATIONS; CACHE COHERENCE PROTOCOLS; COMPREHENSIVE SYSTEM; DYNAMIC EXECUTION; PERFORMANCE STUDY; SYSTEM SOFTWARES; UNIPROCESSOR SYSTEMS;

BENCHMARKING;

EID: 85088405684     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/248155.238773     Document Type: Conference Paper

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