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We examine the impact of using flash memory as a second-level file system buffer cache to reduce power consumption and file access latency on a mobile computer. We use trace-driven simulation to evaluate the impact of what we call a FLASHCACHE. We relate the power consumption and access latency of the storage sub-system to the characteristics of the FLASHCACHE: its size, the unit of erasure, and access costs. We find that a FLASHCACHE can reduce the power consumption of the storage subsystem by 20-40% and can improve overall response time by 30-70% when combined with an aggressive disk management policy. When combined with a more conservative policy, power is reduced from 40-70% while overall response time is improved 20-60%. We also find that durability is not a problem; a 4 MB FLASHCACHE will last 33 years.<
Published in:
System Sciences, 1994. Proceedings of the Twenty-Seventh Hawaii International Conference on
(Volume:1
)
Date of Conference: 4-7 Jan. 1994
- Page(s):
- 451 - 460
- Print ISBN:
- 0-8186-5090-7
- INSPEC Accession Number:
- 4682123
- Conference Location :
- Wailea, HI, USA
- Digital Object Identifier :
- 10.1109/HICSS.1994.323153
- Product Type:
- Conference Publications
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