A method is disclosed which may include providing a cache in a computing system having an initial group of cache objects, the cache object having an initial compression ratio and including stored data; decreasing an amount of data storage space in the cache occupied by at least one of the cache objects other than a given one of the cache objects; and increasing an amount of data storage space in the cache occupied by the given cache object.
CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS
This application claims the benefit of U.S. Provisional Patent Application Ser. No. 60/575,987, filed Jun. 1, 2004, entitled "The Zeno cache: a system for increasing the effectiveness of most-recently-used (MRU) caching for variably compressable data objects," the entirety of the disclosure of which application is hereby incorporated herein by reference.
