Measurements of a distributed file system

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  • DOI 10.1145/121132.121164
  • OpenAlex ID W2007415020
  • Type Conference-paper
  • Language EN
  • Published 01 Sep 1991
  • Pages 198–212
  • FWCI 27.99
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Measurements of a distributed file system

Conference-paper 1991 EN

We analyzed the user-level file access patterns and caching behavior of the Sprite distributed file system. The first part of our analysis repeated a study done in 1985 of the: BSD UNIX file system. We found that file throughput has increased by a factor of 20 to an average of 8 Kbytes per second per active user over 10-minute intervals, and that the use of process migration for load sharing incre…

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2 John H. Hartman University of California, Berk… (US)
3 Michael D. Kupfer University of California, Berk… (US) —
4 Ken W. Shirriff University of California, Berk… (US) —
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