Caching and other disk access avoidance techniques on personal computers

  • Authors:

  • P. J. Jalics;D. R. McIntyre

  • Affiliations:

  • Cleveland State Univ., Cleveland, OH;Cleveland State Univ., Cleveland, OH

  • Venue:
  • Communications of the ACM
  • Year:
  • 1989

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Abstract

CPU processing speed is rapidly increasing on PCs, resulting in a widening gap between disk access and CPU speed. The performance of three common disk caching systems are examined in an effort to determine a technique for reducing the gap.