Page Replacement Algorithm - Conservative Algorithms

Conservative Algorithms

An algorithm is conservative, if on any consecutive request sequence containing k or fewer distinct page references, the algorithm will incur k or fewer page faults.

If ALG is a conservative algorithm with a cache of size k, and OPT is the optimal algorithm with a cache of . Then ALG is -competitive. So every conservative algorithm attains the -competitive ratio.

LRU, FIFO and CLOCK are conservative algorithms.

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