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Operating system memory managers fail to consider the population of read versus write pages in the buffer pool and the outstanding I/O requests when writing dirty pages to disk or network file systems. This leads to bursty I/O patterns, which stall processes reading data and reduce the efficiency of disk and file systems. The paper addresses these limitations by adaptively allocating memory between write buffering and read caching and by writing dirty pages to disk opportunistically before the operating system submits them for writeback. The paper implements and evaluates the methods within the Linux operating system and show performance gains of more than 30% for mixed read/write workloads.
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| Date: | Nov 2007 | ||
| Pages: | 12 |
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