Principles of Optimal Page Replacement
Journal of the ACM (JACM)
Open, Closed, and Mixed Networks of Queues with Different Classes of Customers
Journal of the ACM (JACM)
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
Characteristics and models of program behaviour
ACM '76 Proceedings of the 1976 annual conference
Bibliography on paging and related topics
ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review
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The performance improvements brought by demand paging policies with swapped working-sets depend on several factors, among which the scheduling policy, the behaviour of the programs running in the system and the secondary memory latency characteristics are the more noticeable. We present in this paper a modelling approach to quantify the effects of these factors on the performance of a system running with a swapped working-sets policy. A preliminary analysis, conducted in the virtual time of the programs, shows their influence on the paging behaviour of programs. The results of this analysis are then used within a detailed queueing network of a multiprogrammed system. Computationnaly simple expressions for the CPU time spent in user state and in supervisor state are obtained for a class of paging policies ranging from pure demand paging to demand paging with swapped working-sets. Numerical examples illustrate the analysis, and these results are compared with measurements made on a real system running with swapped working-sets policies.