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.OH '''Papers Contents' .EH 'Papers Contents'''
UNIX Papers coming with FreeBSD

These papers are of both historic and current interest, but most of them are many years old. More recent documentation is available from .>> <a href="http://www.freebsd.org/docs/"> http://www.FreeBSD.org/docs/ .>> </a>

.tl 'Berkeley Pascal''px'

.>> <a href="px.html">px.html</a> .\} .QP Berkeley Pascal PX Implementation Notes

Version 2.0 Performance Effects of Disk Subsystem Choices for VAX\(dg Systems Running 4.2BSD UNIX. William N. Joy, M. Kirk McKusick. Revised January, 1979.

.tl 'Disk Performance''diskperf'

.>> <a href="diskperf.html">diskperf.html</a> .\} .QP Performance Effects of Disk Subsystem Choices for VAX\(dg Systems Running 4.2BSD UNIX. Bob Kridle, Marshall Kirk McKusick. Revised July 27, 1983.

.tl 'Tune the 4.2BSD Kernel''kerntune'

.>> <a href="kerntune.html">kerntune.html</a> .\} .QP Using gprof to Tune the 4.2BSD Kernel. Marshall Kirk McKusick. Revised May 21, 1984 (?).

.tl 'New Virtual Memory''newvm'

.>> <a href="newvm.html">newvm.html</a> .\} .QP A New Virtual Memory Implementation for Berkeley. Marshall Kirk McKusick, Michael J. Karels. Revised 1986.

.tl 'Kernel Malloc''kernmalloc'

.>> <a href="kernmalloc.html">kernmalloc.html</a> .\} .QP Design of a General Purpose Memory Allocator for the 4.3BSD UNIX Kernel. Marshall Kirk McKusick, Michael J. Karels. Reprinted from: Proceedings of the San Francisco USENIX Conference, pp. 295-303, June 1988.

.tl 'Release Engineering''relengr'

.>> <a href="releng.html">releng.html</a> .\} .QP The Release Engineering of 4.3\s-1BSD\s0. Marshall Kirk McKusick, Michael J. Karels, Keith Bostic. Revised 1989.

.tl 'Beyond 4.3BSD''beyond4.3'

.>> <a href="beyond43.html">beyond43.html</a> .\} .QP Current Research by The Computer Systems Research Group of Berkeley. Marshall Kirk McKusick, Michael J Karels, Keith Sklower, Kevin Fall, Marc Teitelbaum, Keith Bostic. Revised February 2, 1989.

.tl 'Filesystem Interface''fsinterface'

.>> <a href="fsinterface.html">fsinterface.html</a> .\} .QP Toward a Compatible Filesystem Interface. Michael J. Karels, Marshall Kirk McKusick. Conference of the European Users' Group, September 1986. Last modified April 16, 1991.

.tl 'System Performance''sysperf'

.>> <a href="sysperf.html">sysperf.html</a> .\} .QP Measuring and Improving the Performance of Berkeley UNIX. Marshall Kirk McKusick, Samuel J. Leffler, Michael J. Karels. Revised April 17, 1991.

.tl 'Not Quite NFS''nqnfs'

.>> <a href="nqnfs.html">nqnfs.html</a> .\} .QP Not Quite NFS, Soft Cache Consistency for NFS. Rick Macklem. Reprinted with permission from the "Proceedings of the Winter 1994 Usenix Conference", January 1994, San Francisco.

.tl 'Malloc(3)''malloc'

.>> <a href="malloc.html">malloc.html</a> .\} .QP Malloc(3) in modern Virtual Memory environments. Poul-Henning Kamp. Revised April 5, 1996.

.tl 'Jails: Confining the omnipotent root''jail'

.>> <a href="jail.html">jail.html</a> .\} .QP The jail system call sets up a jail and locks the current process in it. Poul-Henning Kamp, Robert N. M. Watson. This paper was presented at the 2nd International System Administration and Networking Conference "SANE 2000" May 22-25, 2000 in Maastricht, The Netherlands and is published in the proceedings.