The worst page-replacement policy

  • Kunal Agrawal
  • , Michael A. Bender
  • , Jeremy T. Fineman

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Abstract

In this paper, we consider the question: what is the worst possible page-replacement strategy? Our goal is to devise an online strategy that has the highest possible fraction of misses as compared to the worst offline strategy. We show that there is no deterministic, online pagereplacement strategy that is competitive with the worst offline strategy. We give a randomized strategy based on the "most-recently-used" heuristic, and show that this is the worst possible online page-replacement strategy.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationFun with Algorithms - 4th International Conference, FUN 2007, Proceedings
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages135-145
Number of pages11
ISBN (Print)9783540729136
DOIs
StatePublished - 2007
Event4th International Conference on Fun with Algorithms, FUN 2007 - Castiglioncello, Italy
Duration: Jun 3 2007Jun 5 2007

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume4475 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference4th International Conference on Fun with Algorithms, FUN 2007
Country/TerritoryItaly
CityCastiglioncello
Period06/3/0706/5/07

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