Although LRU replacement policy has been commonly used in the buffer cache
management, it is well known for its inability to cope with access patterns with weak locality …

As a cache eviction algorithm, FIFO has a lot of attractive properties, such as simplicity,
speed, scalability, and flash-friendliness. The most prominent criticism of FIFO is its low …

Reuse-distance analysis is a powerful technique for characterizing temporal locality of
workloads, often visualized with miss ratio curves (MRCs). Unfortunately, even the most …

With the ever-growing performance gap between memory systems and disks, and rapidly
improving CPU performance, virtual memory (VM) management becomes increasingly …

Memory can be efficiently utilized if the dynamic memory demands of applications can be
determined and analyzed at run-time. The page miss ratio curve (MRC), ie page miss rate …

Benchmarking is critical when evaluating performance, but is especially difficult for file and
storage systems. Complex interactions between I/O devices, caches, kernel daemons, and …

Block correlations are common semantic patterns in storage systems. These correlations
can be exploited for improving the effectiveness of storage caching, prefetching, data layout …

Miss rate curves (MRCs) are useful in a number of contexts. In our research, online L2 cache
MRCs enable us to dynamically identify optimal cache sizes when cache-partitioning a …

Hybrid storage solutions use NAND flash memory based Solid State Drives (SSDs) as non-
volatile cache and traditional Hard Disk Drives (HDDs) as lower level storage. Unlike a …

Buffer caches are commonly used in servers to reduce the number of slow disk accesses or
network messages. These buffer caches form a multilevel buffer cache hierarchy. In such a …