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Belady's anomaly: a standalone construct

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Operating systems

the finding that under FIFO page replacement, giving a program more memory frames can increase the number of page faults.

In operating systems, Belady's anomaly refers to the finding that under FIFO page replacement, giving a program more memory frames can increase the number of page faults. This meaning comes from Belady (1969) in Communications of the ACM.[1]

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References

Belady, L. A., Nelson, R. A., & Shedler, G. S. (1969). An anomaly in space-time characteristics of certain programs running in a paging machine. Communications of the ACM, 12(6), 349-353. https://doi.org/10.1145/363011.363155

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