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Title Advanced operating systems and kernel applications : techniques and technologies / [edited by] Yair Wiseman, Song Jiang
Published Hershey, PA : Information Science Reference, ©2010

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 320 pages) : illustrations
Contents 1. Kernel stack overflows elimination / Yair Wiseman, Joel Isaacson, Eliad Lubovsky, Pinchas Weisberg -- 2. Device driver reliability / Michael Swift -- 3. Identifying systemic threats to kernel data / Arati Baliga, Pandurang Kamat, Vinod Ganapathy, Liviu Iftode -- 4. The last line of defense / Art Taylor -- 5. Swap token / Song Jiang -- 6. Application of both temporal and spatial localities in the management of kernel buffer cache / Song Jiang -- 7. Alleviating the thrashing by adding medium-term scheduler / Moses Reuven, Yair Wiseman -- 8. The Exokernel operating system and active networks / Timothy Leschke -- 9. Dynamic analysis and profiling of multithreaded systems / Daniel Waddington, Nilabja Roy, Douglas Schmidt -- 10. Exploiting disk layout and block access history for I/O prefetch / Feng Chen, Xiaoning Ding, Song Jiang -- 11. Sequential file prefetching in Linux / Fengguang Wu -- 12. Peer-based collaborative caching and prefetching in mobile broadcast / Wei Wu, Kian-Lee Tan -- 13. Adaptive replacement algorithm templates and EELRU / Yannis Smaragdakis, Scott Kaplan -- 14. Enhancing the efficiency of memory management in a super-paging environment by AMSQM / Moshe Itshak, Yair Wiseman
Summary "This book discusses non-distributed operating systems that benefit researchers, academicians, and practitioners"--Provided by publisher
Analysis Device driver reliability
Efficient memory utilization
Efficiency of memory management
Exokernel operating system
Kernel security
Kernel stack overflows elimination
Management of kernel buffer cache
Identifying systemic threats
Page replacement algorithms
System thrashing
Temporal and spatial localities
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Operating systems (Computers)
operating systems.
COMPUTERS -- Operating Systems -- Linux.
COMPUTERS -- Operating Systems -- UNIX.
COMPUTERS -- System Administration -- Linux & UNIX Administration.
Operating systems (Computers)
Form Electronic book
Author Wiseman, Yair, 1970-
Jiang, Song
LC no. 2009016442
ISBN 9781605668512
1605668516
9781621989240
1621989240
1605668508
9781605668505