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Performance Enhancement Using Intra-Server Caching In A Continuous Media Server, Chutimet Srinilta, Alok Choudhary

Electrical Engineering and Computer Science - All Scholarship

Continuity of stream playback is the crucial constraint in designing a continuous media server. From a distributed memory architectural model developed earlier, we found that there were many points where the stream capacity of the server could be improved. The stream capacity was usually limited by the storage bottlenecks. Serving streams from memory cache eliminates disk accesses and data transfers between nodes which, in turn, helps relieve those bottlenecks. However, the capacity of the server ultimately depends on client access pattern. Client request assignment has an impact on cache hit ratio as well as workload distribution. It is also the …