Memory management for networked servers

Abstract In the present computing environment, clients are connected by a local area network or a wide area network to servers, which are built from either an individual machine or a cluster of machines Current technology trends indicate an widening gap between processor and disk speed, implying that memory needs to be managed more e ciently in order to support high performance networked servers This dissertation provides solutions to four important problems in memory man - agement for networked servers: server caching, application data locality, volatile mem - ory and shared memory design tradeo s First, this dissertation characterizes the access behavior of server caches, identi es the key properties a good server cache re -