Affiliation:
1. University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada
Abstract
The use of storage hierarchies in the implementation of a paging system is investigated. Alternative approaches for managing a paging storage hierarchy are described and two are selected for further study - staging and migration. Characteristic behaviour is determined for each of these approaches and a series of simulation experiments is conducted (using program reference strings as data) for the purpose of comparing them. The results clearly show migration to be a superior approach from the point of view of both cost and performance. Conclusions are drawn on the effectiveness of each approach in practice.
Publisher
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Subject
Computer Networks and Communications,Hardware and Architecture,Software