Effective Memory Use in a Media Server

Summary: Proposes memory-centric management for media servers, with exact memory-use formulas across disk policies. Shows that maximizing disk utilization or striping can lower throughput and raise costs; analyzes partitioning and multi-disk layouts for memory-aware policy guidance. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: h93aadfca2211d2e6
Venue: VLDB
Year: 1997
Pagerank: 6.8832192e-05
Overall Rank: 3,976 | 73.28%
DOI: -

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Edward Chang (Stanford University)
2. Hector Garcia-Molina (Stanford University)

BibTeX Citation

@article{chang_vldb97,
        title = {{Effective Memory Use in a Media Server}},
        author = {Chang, Edward and Garcia-Molina, Hector},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '97},
        pages = {496},
        year = {1997}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 3 of 3 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
8,640	Data Base Design Principles for Striping and Placement of Delay-Sensitive Data on Disks	1998	PODS	5.2958407e-05
13,154	Dynamic Buffer Allocation in Video-on-Demand Systems	2001	SIGMOD	4.9769913e-05
13,185	Design & Development of a Stream Service in a Heterogeneous Client Environment	2000	VLDB	4.9769913e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 1 of 1 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
3,610	A Low-Cost Storage Server for Movie on Demand Databases	1994	VLDB	7.1610677e-05

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