The Effects of Memory-Rich Environments on File System Microbenchmarks
An-I A. Wang, Geoff Kuenning, Peter L. Reiher, Gerald J. Popek · 2003
File system performance has been greatly influenced by disk caching mechanisms. As the size of memory increases, common workloads are more likely to run completely from memory, and the effects of L2 caching and underlying hardware are becoming more visible.