Adaptive exact-fit storage management
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Using lifetime predictors to improve memory allocation performance
PLDI '93 Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN 1993 conference on Programming language design and implementation
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CustoMalloc: efficient synthesized memory allocators
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The software lookaside buffler reduces search overhead with linked lists
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New methods for dynamic storage allocation (Fast Fits)
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LLM: A Low Latency Messaging Infrastructure for Linux Clusters
HiPC '02 Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on High Performance Computing
On a Tabling Engine That Can Exploit Or-Parallelism
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Self-prevention of socket buffer overflow
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Enforcing provisioning and authorization policy in the Antigone system
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MetaTM/TxLinux: transactional memory for an operating system
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A critique of the GNU hurd multi-server operating system
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Remote specialization for efficient embedded operating systems
ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems (TOPLAS)
Implementation of a constant-time dynamic storage allocator
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A constant-time dynamic storage allocator for real-time systems
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Monitoring heritage buildings with wireless sensor networks: The Torre Aquila deployment
IPSN '09 Proceedings of the 2009 International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks
Capability wrangling made easy: debugging on a microkernel with valgrind
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Lock-free parallel dynamic programming
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KAL: kernel-assisted non-invasive memory leak tolerance with a general-purpose memory allocator
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PacketShader: a GPU-accelerated software router
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Making the common case the only case with anticipatory memory allocation
FAST'11 Proceedings of the 9th USENIX conference on File and stroage technologies
Cache index-aware memory allocation
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Postmortem Debugging in Dynamic Environments
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Postmortem debugging in dynamic environments
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Making the common case the only case with anticipatory memory allocation
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The myrmics memory allocator: hierarchical,message-passing allocation for global address spaces
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Wire-speed statistical classification of network traffic on commodity hardware
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This paper presents a comprehensive design overview of the SunOS 5.4 kernel memory allocator. This allocator is based on a set of object-caching primitives that reduce the cost of allocating complex objects by retaining their state between uses. These same primitives prove equally effective for managing stateless memory (e.g. data pages and temporary buffers) because they are space-efficient and fast. The allocator's object caches respond dynamically to global memory pressure, and employ an object-coloring scheme that improves the system's overall cache utilization and bus balance. The allocator also has several statistical and debugging features that can detect a wide range of problems throughout the system.