Paper Info
Title
A file is not a file: understanding the I/O behavior of Apple desktop applications
Abstract
We analyze the I/O behavior of iBench, a new collection of productivity and multimedia application workloads. Our analysis reveals a number of differences between iBench and typical file-system workload studies, including the complex organization of modern files, the lack of pure sequential access, the influence of underlying frameworks on I/O patterns, the widespread use of file synchronization and atomic operations, and the prevalence of threads. Our results have strong ramifications for the design of next generation local and cloud-based storage systems.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1145/2324876.2324878
ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS)
Keywords
DocType
Volume
measurement
Conference
30
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
3
0734-2071
72
PageRank 
References 
Authors
2.69
26
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Tyler Harter122512.32
Chris Dragga21065.11
Michael Vaughn3863.51
Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau43133307.84
Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau53120383.86