Making LRU friendly to weak locality workloads: A novel replacement algorithm to improve buffer cache performance

IEEE Transactions on Computers

Volumn 54, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 939-952

  Jiang, Song ^a   Zhang, Xiaodong ^b  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b The College of William and Mary   (United States)

Author keywords

Memory management; Operating systems; Replacement algorithms

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION;

MEMORY MANAGEMENT; REPLACEMENT ALGORITHM; WEAK LOCALITY;

CACHE MEMORY;

EID: 24144449953     PISSN: 00189340     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TC.2005.130     Document Type: Article

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