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The Back-to-Basics Readings of 2012 - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

The Back-to-Basics Readings of 2012. By Werner Vogels on 18 December 2012 10:00 PM. May 28 - Virtual Time and Global States of Distributed Systems , Friedemann Mattern, Parallel and Distributed Algorithms, North-Holland (1989) , p. All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems.

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32 MiB Working Sets on a 64 GiB machine

Randon ASCII

Memory is a relatively scarce resource on many consumer computers, so a feature to limit how much memory a process uses seems like a good idea, and Microsoft did indeed implement such a feature. KiPageFault is triggered whenever a process touches memory that is not currently in the working set of the process. That is remarkable.

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Expanding The Cloud ? High Performance I/O Instances for Amazon.

All Things Distributed

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