Make the contents of a segment into an itemized list.

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Robert Strandh 5 years ago
parent 59156f69a2
commit e308462c58

@ -213,16 +213,22 @@ represents a unit of checkpointing. New segments are added to the
tail of the queue. Old segments are removed from the head of the
queue as described below.
A segment consists of a \emph{header} containing metadata about the
contents of the segment, and of a certain number of pages that may
have been modified since the previous checkpoint. Again, to make the
description more concrete, let us imagine that the number of pages in
a segment is around $250$ or so, for a total of around $1MB$ of page
data. A segment is written as a unit to the secondary storage device.
If that device is a disk, then the seek time and rotation delay of the
disk will not significantly impact the transfer of the segment to the
disk, because the size of the segment is sufficiently large that the
data-transfer time will dominate.
A segment consists of:
\begin{itemize}
\item a \emph{header} containing metadata about the contents of the
segment, and
\item a certain number of pages that may have been modified since the
previous checkpoint.
\end{itemize}
Again, to make the description more concrete, let us imagine that the
number of pages in a segment is around $250$ or so, for a total of
around $1MB$ of page data. A segment is written as a unit to the
secondary storage device. If that device is a disk, then the seek
time and rotation delay of the disk will not significantly impact the
transfer of the segment to the disk, because the size of the segment
is sufficiently large that the data-transfer time will dominate.
Furthermore, it is advantageous to keep the secondary storage device
nearly full, because then (if the device is a disk) the head and the

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