disk access
- noun
- Specialized
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acceso al disco
- However, the number of disk accesses required per unit of system work is also optimized.
How, how long is a disk access compared to, you know, yeah, what's a disk access?
- How, how long is a disk access compared to, you know, yeah, what's a disk access?
Examples
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Unlike instruction and memory tracing, traces of disk accesses can be collected via software instrumentation without loss of information or undue perturbation of the system under study.
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Because I/O is managed by the operating system, it is possible to instrument a small amount of code within the OS to keep track of all disk accesses.
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How, how long is a disk access compared to, you know, yeah, what's a disk access?
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It's also called the IO model, and it's also called the disk access model, I think, just so that it could be called the DAM model.
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Typically, these are disk accesses or communications transfers over a LAN.
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In terms of CPU cycles for an IGHz processor, each disk access corresponds to 5 million CPU cycles.
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First, note that user-level response time in commercial servers is usually dominated by disk access time and network delays, and these are not affected by multithreading.
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Such lookup controls are more computationally costly than the first category of comparison/calculation controls because they involve disk accesses.
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Frequent disk access can slow down your computer's performance significantly.
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To improve loading times, reduce disk access by moving files to faster storage solutions.
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'reading from or writing to a computer disk' is directly derivable from combining 'disk' (a storage device) with 'access' (ability to approach or use). This is a straightforward, compositional noun phrase following common patterns in English and other languages, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents should understand it.
Etymology
Disk access comes from the image of a machine reaching into a spinning disk to get or put information. The word access means 'to read' or 'to write', so disk access means the process of reading from or writing to a disk.