Measurements of segment size

Authors:
Alan Batson;Shy-Ming Ju;David C. Wood
Affiliations:
University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Va.;University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Va.;University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Va.
Venue:
SOSP '69 Proceedings of the second symposium on Operating systems principles
Year:
1969

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Abstract

Distributions of segment sizes have been measured under routine operating conditions on a computer system which utilizes variable-sized segments (the Burroughs B5500). The most striking feature of the measurements is the large number of small segments - about 60% of the segments in use contain less than 40 words. Although the results are certainly not installation-independent, they should be relevant to the design of new computer systems, especially with respect to the organization of paging schemes.