Karl's Published Papers

Optimal Routing of IP Packets to Multi-Homed Servers

Presented at the 6th USENIX Large Installation System Administration (LISA VI) Conference, Long Beach, 19-23 October 1992. (Abstract, PDF, PS.GZ)
SLAC-PUB-5895 contains a few last-minute corrections that didn't make it into the proceedings version. (PDF, PS.GZ)

Forecasting Disk Resource Requirements for a Usenet Server

Presented at the 7th USENIX Large Installation System Administration (LISA VII) Conference, Monterey, California, 1-5 November 1993. (Proceedings, Abstract, PDF, PS.GZ)
Also published as SLAC-PUB-6353. (PDF, PS.GZ)
Updates based on data through 1996 from SLAC's news server are also available.

Adventures in the Evolution of a High-Bandwidth Network for Central Servers

Karl L. Swartz, Les Cottrell, Marty Dart
Presented at the 8th USENIX Large Installation System Administration (LISA VIII) Conference, San Diego, 19-23 September 1994. (Proceedings, Abstract, PDF, PS.GZ)
Also published as SLAC-PUB-6567. (PDF, PS.GZ)

The Brave Little Toaster Meets Usenet

Presented (PPT, HTML) at the 10th USENIX Large Installation System Administration (LISA X) Conference, Chicago, 29 September - 4 October 1996. (Proceedings, Abstract, PDF, PS.GZ)
Also published as SLAC-PUB-7254.

Adding Response Time Measurement of
CIFS File Server Performance to NetBench

Presented (PPT, HTML) at the USENIX Windows NT Workshop, Seattle, 11-13 August 1997. (Proceedings, Abstract, HTML, PDF, PS.GZ)
Also presented (PPT, HTML) at the Large Scale System Administration of NT Workshop, Seattle, 14-16 August 1997.

Various Network Appliance Technical Reports -

Migrating to a Web Filer (TR-3012)

CIFS Filer Performance Measured with NetBench (TR-3015)
Karl L. Swartz, Andy Watson

Using NetApp Filers with NetNews (TR-3016) (Not released.)

F630 Filer Performance Measured with NetBench (TR-3019)
Karl L. Swartz, Andy Watson

F630 NetBench Update (TR-3025)

Multiple Volumes and Multiple RAID Groups on NetApp Filers (TR-3027)

Transparent, Scalable, Fail-Safe Web Caching (TR-3033)
Peter Danzig and Karl L. Swartz

NetCache NNTP (NetNews) Caching (TR-3059)