Analysis of file I/O traces in commercial computing environments

Proceedings of the 1992 ACM SIGMETRICS Joint International Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems, SIGMETRICS/PERFORMANCE 1992

Volumn , Issue , 1992, Pages 78-90

  Ramakrishnan, K K ^a   Biswas, Prabuddha ^a   Karedla, Ramakrishna ^a  

^a HEWLETT PACKARD COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SCIENCE; COMPUTERS; MEASUREMENTS;

COMPREHENSIVE ANALYSIS; COMPUTING ENVIRONMENTS; DESIGN CHANGE; DYNAMIC SHARING; FILE SYSTEMS; INTERACTIVE ENVIRONMENTS; PRIME TIME; USAGE PATTERNS;

FILE ORGANIZATION;

EID: 84950241176     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/133057.133090     Document Type: Conference Paper

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