Software aging and multifractality of memory resources

@article{Shereshevsky2003SoftwareAA,
  title={Software aging and multifractality of memory resources},
  author={Mark Shereshevsky and John I. Crowell and Bojan Cukic and Vijai Gandikota and Yan Liu},
  journal={2003 International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks, 2003. Proceedings.},
  year={2003},
  pages={721-730}
}
We investigate the dynamics of monitored memory resource utilizations in an operating system under stress using quantitative methods of fractal analysis. In the experiments, we recorded the time series representing various memory related parameters of the operating system. We observed that parameters demonstrate clear multifractal behavior. The degree of fractality of these time series tends to increase as the system workload increases. We conjecture that the H¨ older exponent that measures the… 
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