Title :
Operating systems support for busy Internet servers
Author :
Mogul, Jeffrey C.
Author_Institution :
Western Res. Lab., Digital Equipment Corp., Palo Alto, CA, USA
Abstract :
The Internet has experienced exponential growth in the use of the World-Wide Web, and rapid growth in the use of other Internet services such as USENET news and electronic mail. These applications qualitatively differ from other network applications in the stresses they impose on busy server systems. Unlike traditional distributed systems, Internet servers must cope with huge user communities, short interactions, and long network latencies. Such servers require different kinds of operating system features to manage their resources effectively
Keywords :
Internet; information services; network operating systems; network servers; operating systems (computers); Internet; Internet servers; USENET news; World-Wide Web; busy server systems; electronic mail; long network latencies; operating system; short interactions; user communities; Central Processing Unit; Electronic mail; Laboratories; Local area networks; Network servers; Nominations and elections; Operating systems; Resource management; Web and internet services; Web server;
Conference_Titel :
Hot Topics in Operating Systems, 1995. (HotOS-V), Proceedings., Fifth Workshop on
Conference_Location :
Orcas Island, WA
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-7081-9
DOI :
10.1109/HOTOS.1995.513471
