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USENIX
2007
13 years 7 months ago
Evaluating Block-level Optimization Through the IO Path
This paper focuses on evaluation of the effectiveness of optimization at various layers of the IO path, such as the file system, the device driver scheduler, and the disk drive i...
Alma Riska, James Larkby-Lahet, Erik Riedel
VLDB
1993
ACM
102views Database» more  VLDB 1993»
13 years 9 months ago
Local Disk Caching for Client-Server Database Systems
Client disks ure a valuable resource that ure not adequately exploited by current client-server ciatabasesystems.In this papeG we propose the use of client disksfor caching databa...
Michael J. Franklin, Michael J. Carey, Miron Livny
SIGMETRICS
1998
ACM
187views Hardware» more  SIGMETRICS 1998»
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...
WWW
2003
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
A Light-weight, Temporary File System for Large-scale Web Servers
Several recent studies have pointed out that file I/Os can be a major performance bottleneck for some large Web servers. Large I/O buffer caches often do not work effectively for ...
Dong Li, Jun Wang
FAST
2003
13 years 6 months ago
Using MEMS-Based Storage in Disk Arrays
Current disk arrays, the basic building blocks of highperformance storage systems, are built around two memory technologies: magnetic disk drives, and non-volatile DRAM caches. Di...
Mustafa Uysal, Arif Merchant, Guillermo A. Alvarez