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Experience has shown that many widely used benchmarks are poor predictors of the performance of systems running commercial applications. Research into this anomaly has long been hampered by a lack of address traces from representative multi-user commercial workloads. This paper presents research, using traces of industry-standard commercial benchmarks, which examines the characteristic differences between technical and commercial workloads and illustrates how those differences affect cache performance.
Maynard et al. (Tue,) studied this question.