The concept of network memory was introduced for the efficient exploitation of main memory in a cluster. Network memory can be used to speed up applications that frequently access large amount of disk data. In this paper, we present a memory managemen...
The concept of network memory was introduced for the efficient exploitation of main memory in a cluster. Network memory can be used to speed up applications that frequently access large amount of disk data. In this paper, we present a memory management algorithm that does not require prior knowledge of access patterns and that is practical to implement under the web server cluster. In addition, our scheme has a good user response time for various access distributions of web documents. Through a detailed simulation, we evaluate the performance of our memory management algorithms.