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Comment on "Issues and Challenges in the Performance Analysis of Real Disk Arrays'
November 2005 (vol. 16 no. 11)
pp. 1103-1104
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Alexander Thomasian, Chang Liu, "Comment on "Issues and Challenges in the Performance Analysis of Real Disk Arrays'," IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, vol. 16, no. 11, pp. 1103-1104, November, 2005.
 
 
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@article{ 10.1109/TPDS.2005.132,
author = {Alexander Thomasian and Chang Liu},
title = {Comment on "Issues and Challenges in the Performance Analysis of Real Disk Arrays'},
journal ={IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems},
volume = {16},
number = {11},
issn = {1045-9219},
year = {2005},
pages = {1103-1104},
doi = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/TPDS.2005.132},
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA},
}
 
 
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TY - JOUR
JO - IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems
TI - Comment on "Issues and Challenges in the Performance Analysis of Real Disk Arrays'
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SN - 1045-9219
SP1103
EP1104
EPD - 1103-1104
A1 - Alexander Thomasian,
A1 - Chang Liu,
PY - 2005
KW - Disk scheduling
KW - SCAN
KW - SPTF
KW - performance analysis.
VL - 16
JA - IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems
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Abstract—We address an analysis of the SCAN disk scheduling, which approximates the mean seek distance as the ratio of maximum distance and disk_queue+1. We also comment on using the mean seek distance to estimate the mean disk response time.

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Index Terms:
Disk scheduling, SCAN, SPTF, performance analysis.
Citation:
Alexander Thomasian, Chang Liu, "Comment on "Issues and Challenges in the Performance Analysis of Real Disk Arrays'," IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, vol. 16, no. 11, pp. 1103-1104, Nov. 2005, doi:10.1109/TPDS.2005.132
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