Bryan Cantrill on ARC: A Self-Tuning, Low Overhead Replacement Cache [PWL SF] 10/2017

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Bryan Cantrill presents the ARC (Adaptive Replacement Cache) paper by Megiddo and Modha at Papers We Love. He opens with a survey of caching strategies before digging into the self-tuning LRU/MFU design.

Recommended in cache-algorithm threads as a fun, informative walk through caching strategies and ARC.

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4 comments from Hacker News

@mapgrep2019 · in “ZFS on Linux still has annoying issues with ARC size”

The author calls ARC autotuning “opaque” which surprised me given a well regarded paper has been published on it: [LINK] [VIDEO] ...that said the author has been writing on the ARC for more than 10 years judging from his blog links so perhaps that paper did not answer his questions.

@greggyb2021 · in “The Multi-Generational LRU”

Bryan Cantrill does a pretty good survey of caching strategies in the intro to this Papers We Love talk on the ARC in ZFS. [VIDEO]

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@anotherhue2023 · in “FIFO-Reinsertion is better than LRU [pdf]”

Might I also recommend: Bryan Cantrill on ARC: A Self-Tuning, Low Overhead Replacement Cache [PWL SF] 10/2017 [VIDEO]

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@bminor132024 · in “Sieve is simpler than LRU”

> it seemed natural to have a set of generations for items that have only been seen once, and then another generation for things that have been more active Have you looked at ARC? It sounds similar - it is a cache split between LRU and MFU areas, where the split point changes dynamically depending on the workload. [VIDEO] is a fun watch on the topic.

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