1991
DOI: 10.1145/122564.122568
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Analysis of the paging behavior of UNIX

Abstract: We analyze the paging behavior of several different versions of UNIX by recording traces of paging activity over time and writing programs to analyze the traces. We recorded periodic totals of paging events instead of individual paging events themselves. Our analysis shows that paging activity accounts for between 15% and 21% of all disk block accesses. Average paging system traffic is very low. The paging system is idle most of the time and paging activity occurs in large periodic bursts. Despite the fact tha… Show more

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