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SIGMETRICS
1998
ACM
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13 years 9 months ago
An Analytic Behavior Model for Disk Drives with Readahead Caches and Request Reordering
Modern disk drives read-ahead data and reorder incoming requests in a workload-dependent fashion. This improves their performance, but makes simple analytical models of them inade...
Elizabeth A. M. Shriver, Arif Merchant, John Wilke...
QEST
2009
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
A Performance Model of Zoned Disk Drives with I/O Request Reordering
—Disk drives are a common performance bottleneck in modern storage systems. To alleviate this, disk manufacturers employ a variety of I/O request scheduling strategies which aim ...
Abigail S. Lebrecht, Nicholas J. Dingle, William J...
MASCOTS
2003
13 years 6 months ago
An integrated performance model of disk arrays
All enterprise storage systems depend on disk arrays to satisfy their capacity, reliability, and availability requirements. Performance models of disk arrays are useful in underst...
Elizabeth Varki, Arif Merchant, Jianzhang Xu, Xiao...
SC
1991
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
Input/output behavior of supercomputing applications
: This paper describes the collection and analysis of supercomputer I/O traces and their use in a collection of buffering and caching simulations. This serves two purposes. First, ...
Ethan L. Miller, Randy H. Katz
LISA
2007
13 years 7 months ago
Application Buffer-Cache Management for Performance: Running the World's Largest MRTG
An operating system’s readahead and buffer-cache behaviors can significantly impact application performance; most often these better performance, but occasionally they worsen it...
David Plonka, Archit Gupta, Dale Carder