The working set model for program behavior
Communications of the ACM
Analysis of system bottlenecks using a queueing network model
Proceedings of the SIGOPS workshop on System performance evaluation
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The Page Survival Index (PSI) was defined in a preceding paper where it was used to describe the behavior of individual programs running in a time sharing environment. Here we show how a system-wide value of PSI can be calculated on the fly by the operating system. This value can be used to estimate users' memory requirements and to control system performance by maintaining the proper multiprogramming level. Simulation results show that a scheduler based on these concepts can achieve significant improvements in system performance.