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A study of storage partitioning using a mathematical model of locality

By E. G. Coffman, Thomas A. Ryan
Communications of the ACM, March 1972, Vol. 15 No. 3, Pages 185-190
10.1145/361268.361280
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Both fixed and dynamic storage partitioning procedures are examined for use in multiprogramming systems. The storage requirement of programs is modeled as a stationary Gaussian process. Experiments justifying this model are described. By means of this model dynamic storage partitioning is shown to provide substantial increases in storage utilization and operating efficiency over fixed partitioning.

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