The Multics virtual memory: concepts and design
Communications of the ACM
The working set model for program behavior
Communications of the ACM
The multics system: an examination of its structure
The multics system: an examination of its structure
Memory-constrained task scheduling on a network of dual processors
Journal of the ACM (JACM)
Comments on “ `Coherency for multiprocessor virtual addresses caches' by James R. Goodman"
ACM SIGARCH Computer Architecture News
Leases: an efficient fault-tolerant mechanism for distributed file cache consistency
SOSP '89 Proceedings of the twelfth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles
Modeling distributed file systems
ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review
File placement and process assignment due to resource sharing in a distributed system
WSC '85 Proceedings of the 17th conference on Winter simulation
Implementing a cache consistency protocol
ISCA '85 Proceedings of the 12th annual international symposium on Computer architecture
Secure personal computing in an insecure network
Communications of the ACM
Research problems of decentralized systems with largely autonomous nodes
ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review
Distributed file systems - a survey
ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review
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There are many good arguments for implementing information systems as distributed systems. These arguments depend on the extent to which interactions between machines in the distributed implementation can be minimized. Sharing among users of a computer utility is a type of interaction that may be difficult to provide in a distributed system. This paper defines a number of parameters that can be used to characterize such sharing. This paper reports measurements that were made on the M.I.T. Multics system in order to obtain estimates of the values of these parameters for that system. These estimates are upper bounds on the amount of sharing and show that although Multics was designed to provide active sharing among its users, very little sharing actually takes place. Most of the sharing that does take place is sharing of system programs, such as the compilers and editors.