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Switching Between Page Replacement Algorithms Based On Work Load During Runtime In Linux Kernel, Praveen Subramaniyam

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Today’s computers are equipped with multiple processor cores to execute multiple programs effectively at a single point of time. This increase in the number of cores needs to be equipped with a huge amount of physical memory to keep multiple applications in memory at a time and to effectively switch between them, without getting affected by the low speed disk memory. The physical memory of today’s world has become so cheap such that all the computer systems are always equipped with sufficient amount of physical memory required effectively to run most of the applications. Along with the memory, the sizes …