A Performance Study of Workfile Disk Management for Concurrent Mergesorts in a Multiprocessor Database System
Summary: Simulates workfile disk allocation and striping for concurrent mergesorts in a multiprocessor DB; evaluates equal-group partitioning and group choice by arriving sorts. Findings: without striping, a single partition is best when disks are abundant or load is light; with limited disks or heavy load, partition size is workload-dependent; striping helps only when the striping unit is well chosen. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
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- 1. Kun-Lung Wu
- 2. Philip S. Yu
- 3. Jen-Yao Chung
- 4. James Z. Teng
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| 50 | A Case for Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Disks (RAID) | 1988 | SIGMOD | 0.00067394827 |
| 128 | An Evaluation of Buffer Management Strategies for Relational Database Systems | 1985 | VLDB | 0.00044535268 |
| 793 | Staggered Striping in Multimedia Information Systems | 1994 | SIGMOD | 0.00016605711 |
| 1,556 | Predictive Load Control for Flexible Buffer Allocation | 1991 | VLDB | 0.00011392646 |
| 1,910 | Flexible Buffer Allocation Based on Marginal Gains | 1991 | SIGMOD | 0.00010120833 |
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