DocumentCode
751758
Title
Management of partially safe buffers
Author
Akyürek, Sedat ; Salem, Kenneth
Author_Institution
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Maryland Univ., College Park, MD, USA
Volume
44
Issue
3
fYear
1995
fDate
3/1/1995 12:00:00 AM
Firstpage
394
Lastpage
407
Abstract
Safe RAM is RAM which has been made as reliable as a disk. We consider the problem of buffer management in partially safe buffers, i.e., buffers which contain both safe RAM and volatile RAM. Buffer management techniques for partially safe buffers explicitly consider the safety of memory in deciding which data to place in the buffer, where to place it, and when to copy updates back to the disk. We present techniques for managing such buffers and study their performance using trace-driven simulations
Keywords
buffer storage; fault tolerant computing; storage management; buffer management; disks; operating systems; partially safe buffers; performance; reliability; safe RAM; trace-driven simulations; volatile RAM; Batteries; Buffer storage; Computational modeling; Control systems; Costs; Delay; Power system reliability; Random access memory; Read-write memory; Safety;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Computers, IEEE Transactions on
Publisher
ieee
ISSN
0018-9340
Type
jour
DOI
10.1109/12.372032
Filename
372032
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