Contrasting characteristics and cache performance of technical and multi-user commercial workloads
Ann Marie Grizzaffi Maynard, Colette M. Donnelly, Bret R. Olszewski · 1994
Experience has shown that many widely used benchmarks are poor predictors of the performance of systems running commercial applications. Research into this anomaly has long been hampered by a lack of address traces from representative multi-user commercial workloads. This paper presents research, using traces of industry-standard commercial benchmarks, which examines the characteristic differences between technical and commercial workloads and illustrates how those differences affect cache performance.