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Measurements of the paging behavior of UNIX

Published: 02 April 1991 Publication History

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This paper analyzes measurements of paging activity from several different versions of UNIX. We set out to characterize paging activity by first taking measurements of it, and then writing programs to analyze it. In doing so, we were interested in answering several questions:1. What is the magnitude of paging traffic and how much of I/O system activity is paging related?2. What are the characteristics of paging activity, and how can paging system implementations be tuned to match them?3. How does paging activity vary across different machines, operating systems, and job mixes?4. How well does paging activity correlate with system load average and number of users?

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  • (2002)Measuring system normalityACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS)10.1145/507052.50705420:2(125-160)Online publication date: 1-May-2002
  • (2001)Simulation of User-Driven Computer BehaviourProceedings of the 15th USENIX conference on System administration10.5555/1047531.1047542(101-108)Online publication date: 7-Dec-2001

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cover image ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review
ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review  Volume 19, Issue 1
May 1991
223 pages
ISSN:0163-5999
DOI:10.1145/107972
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  • cover image ACM Conferences
    SIGMETRICS '91: Proceedings of the 1991 ACM SIGMETRICS conference on Measurement and modeling of computer systems
    April 1991
    228 pages
    ISBN:0897913922
    DOI:10.1145/107971
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Published: 02 April 1991
Published in SIGMETRICS Volume 19, Issue 1

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  • (2002)Measuring system normalityACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS)10.1145/507052.50705420:2(125-160)Online publication date: 1-May-2002
  • (2001)Simulation of User-Driven Computer BehaviourProceedings of the 15th USENIX conference on System administration10.5555/1047531.1047542(101-108)Online publication date: 7-Dec-2001

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