Cache modelling in a performance evaluator for parallel database systems

Author

Zhou, Shaoyu ; Tomov, Neven ; Williams, M. Howard ; Burger, Albert ; Taylor, Hamish

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. & Electr. Eng., Heriot-Watt Univ., Edinburgh, UK

fYear

1997

fDate

12-15 Jan 1997

Firstpage

46

Lastpage

50

Abstract

Cache modelling is an important issue in developing an analytical performance evaluator to estimate the performance of applications running on parallel DBMSs. This paper describes a cache model developed for parallel cache management in the Oracle7 parallel server. Some preliminary results have also been obtained by using the cache model to predict the cache hit ratio for varying database sizes and varying numbers of participating processing elements

Keywords

cache storage; distributed databases; file servers; software performance evaluation; Oracle7 parallel server; analytical performance evaluator; application software performance estimation; cache hit ratio; cache modelling; database size; parallel cache management; parallel database systems; processor number; Cache memory; Concurrent computing; Database systems; Distributed databases; Network servers; Performance analysis; Predictive models; Resource management; Throughput; Transaction databases;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems, 1997. MASCOTS '97., Proceedings Fifth International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Haifa

Print_ISBN

0-8186-7758-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MASCOT.1997.567578

Filename

567578