Revisiting swapping in mobile systems with SwapBench

Xiao Zhu, Duo Liu, Liang Liang, Kan Zhong, Linbo Long, Meikang Qiu, Zili Shao, Edwin Hsing-Mean Sha

Abstract: Highlights•An evaluation framework is proposed to appraise different swapping schemes.•SwapBench is implemented on Android platform and validated with micro benchmark.•Evaluation of application launch time with different swap schemes is given.•Evaluation of application switch delay with different swap schemes is given.•The impact of swap size and application memory access feature is discussed.