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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Authors
- 1. Kun-Lung Wu (IBM)
- 2. Philip S. Yu (IBM)
- 3. Jen-Yao Chung (IBM)
- 4. James Z. Teng (IBM)
BibTeX Citation
@article{wu_vldb95,
title = {{A Performance Study of Workfile Disk Management for Concurrent Mergesorts in a Multiprocessor Database System}},
author = {Wu, Kun-Lung and Yu, Philip S. and Chung, Jen-Yao and Teng, James Z.},
journal = {PVLDB},
series = {{VLDB} '95},
pages = {100--111},
year = {1995}
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| 128 | An Evaluation of Buffer Management Strategies for Relational Database Systems | 1985 | VLDB | 0.00030399615 |
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| 1,189 | Staggered Striping in Multimedia Information Systems | 1994 | SIGMOD | 0.00011593586 |
| 1,520 | Predictive Load Control for Flexible Buffer Allocation | 1991 | VLDB | 0.00010378432 |
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