Execution characteristics of programs in a page-on-demand system
- 1 April 1974
- journal article
- Published by Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) in Communications of the ACM
- Vol. 17 (4) , 192-196
- https://doi.org/10.1145/360924.360930
Abstract
H show the execution characteristics of two types of commonly used programs in a large-scale, time-shared computer system. A software monitoring facility built into the supervisor was used for data collection during normal system operation. These data were analyzed, and results of this analysis are presented for a Fortran compiler and an interactive line file editor. Probability distribution functions and other data are given for such things as CPU intervals, I/O intervals, and the number of such intervals during execution. Empirical distributions are compared with simple theoretical distributions (exponential, hyperexponential, and geometric). Other data show paging characteristics of tasks as a function of the number of pages those tasks have in core.Keywords
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