ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
The working set model for program behavior
Communications of the ACM
Further experimental data on the behavior of programs in a paging environment
Communications of the ACM
A note on an empirical study of paging on an IBM 370/145
ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review
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In the design of programs, and the tuning of operating system performance, consideration is sometimes given to the effect of virtual memory behavior. An important but often overlooked statistic of virtual memory dynamics is that of page life (the real time required for an unreferenced page to be removed from memory). Page life values are related to page rates but are more easily compared with program timing and thus are easier to understand. Measurements of this parameter for an IBM VS/1 operating system are presented and discussed.