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Basic System Performance

To characterize Denali's performance, we measured the context switching overhead between VMs, and the swap disk subsystem performance. We also characterized virtualization overhead by analyzing packet dispatch latency, and by comparing the application-level TCP and HTTP throughput of Denali with that of BSD.



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Andrew Whitaker 2002-10-07