> > In my WCW99 presentation I showed data on cache sizes up to 8GB on
    > > two-week NLANR request streams of 5-7 million requests.  Now I'm
    > > working with six 28-day NLANR request streams, each of which contains
    > > between 10 and 35 million requests.  I'm simulating caches up to
    > > 32GB.  My data show that LFU with an aging mechanism offers
    > > substantially higher byte hit rates than LRU; for instance, on our
    > > largest trace, an 8GB LRU cache gives you a 51% BHR whereas LFU gives
    > > you 55%.  I'll have a paper ready for submission in a few weeks.
    ...
    
    Suggestions for increasing the realism of my work at reasonable cost
    are very welcome.
    
I would gently suggest that an 8GB disk cache size is no longer very
interesting.  However, I would be very curious to know if replacement
algorithms made a difference in managing main-memory caches.  A couple
weeks ago I ran some LRU simulations of main-memory caches against the
Polygraph "uniform" model, and the hit rates are very low (e.g. 10% 
byte hit rate for 60MB cache).
Cobalt has a few customers who have been generous enough to agree to
donate their log files for analysis.  I have to anonymize these logs
but once that's taken care of I can release them.
gid
Received on Tue Jul 29 2003 - 13:15:58 MDT
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