Looking for the original paper on tuning Lex

Arnold Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com>
Mon, 15 Jun 2020 06:06:17 +0000 (UTC)

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From: Arnold Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com>
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Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2020 06:06:17 +0000 (UTC)
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Vern Paxson presented his work on tuning Lex at the 1987 Washington
USENIX conference. The proceedings had just an abstract, now
available here:


https://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Documentation/Papers/TuningUnixLex_Jacobson_USENIX_Winter_1987_pp163_164.pdf


Is the full paper available anywhere? It looks like it'd be worthwhile
reading, even today.


Thanks,


Arnold

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