Serverless network file systems
SOSP '95 Proceedings of the fifteenth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles
Serverless network file systems
ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS) - Special issue on operating system principles
Hint-based cooperative caching
ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS)
Global Memory Management in Client-Server Database Architectures
VLDB '92 Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases
Cooperative caching: using remote client memory to improve file system performance
OSDI '94 Proceedings of the 1st USENIX conference on Operating Systems Design and Implementation
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The high performance networks in modern distributed systems enable a site to obtain cached objects from the main memory of other sites more quickly han the time needed to access local disks. In this environment, efficient mechanisms can be devised to support rapid request/response exchanges for objects that reside on remote sites. As a result, it becomes possible to use remote memory as an additional layer in the memory hierarchy between local memory and disks.This paper studies the performance potential of remote memory caching. A key issue is managing the number of object replicas maintained by different sites. Although exploiting remote memory improves performance over a wide range of cache sizes as compared to a distributed client/server caching architecture, efficient use of remote memory can be dificult to achieve. The effect of several system parameters, and several cache policies are examined; their effect on both overall and local system performance is described.