Computer Systems Performance Evaluation and Prediction

File Allocation Table (FAT), 366, 371-72

defined, 371

FAT32, 371-72

VFAT, 371

File directories, 77

File management, 76-77

applications, 76

defined, 76

services, 77

See also Operating systems architecture

File systems

LINUX, 364

Windows ME, 371-72

Windows XP, 366

File transfer workload, 397-98

constant file size, 397

CPU use and memory utilization, 397, 398

experiment results, 403

observations, 397-98

See also Operating systems analysis

First-come first-served (FCFS), 133, 135

First-in first-out (FIFO), 31, 206

Forking, 382

Functional evaluation, 88-89