Tag
working-set
- Jun 4, 2026 Hit Ratio Arithmetic and How to Size a Cache Tier How to convert a hit ratio into source load and latency, why the miss-rate curve flattens before the working set is covered, and which measurement choices make a cache look better than it is. backend systems
- Aug 26, 2025 Clock, Second Chance, and the Cost of Approximating LRU How a reference bit turns a circular scan into a cheap replacement policy, what the scan rate reveals about memory pressure, and where the approximation breaks down. memory systems
- Oct 1, 2024 Residency Hints and the Arithmetic of Managed-Memory Thrashing How preferred-location and accessed-by advice changes where a managed page lives, why advice is not a guarantee, and how to tell a capacity problem from a policy problem. gpu computing
- Mar 21, 2023 Working Set Size and the Miss-Rate Cliff Why memory performance degrades in a knee rather than a slope, how capacity and associativity produce the knee, and how to find its location empirically. performance engineering