Adaptive exact-fit storage management

  • Authors:
  • Rodney R. Oldehoeft;Stephen J. Allan

  • Affiliations:
  • Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO;Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO

  • Venue:
  • Communications of the ACM
  • Year:
  • 1985

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Abstract

Tested against extremes in the characteristics of arrival patterns to dynamic allocation software, the working-set approach outperforms the FIFO method except in the case of completely random request patterns—where the working-set method performs as well as the FIFO method.