Operating systems support for busy Internet servers

The Internet has experienced exponential growth in the use of the World-Wide Web, and rapid growth in the use of other Internet services such as USENET news and electronic mail. These applications qualitatively differ from other network applications in the stresses they impose on busy server systems. Unlike traditional distributed systems, Internet servers must cope with huge user communities, short interactions, and long network latencies. Such servers require different kinds of operating system features to manage their resources effectively.