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Accordingly, a thorough simulation study was undertaken to answer these questions.","Our study showed that performance of a DBMS is affected by both paging and buffering algorithms; the performance of a specific combination results from a kind of "addition" of effects of the two algorithms. Outside of providing a warning against LFU, our simulations did not yield any definitive choice for buffering/paging combination nor did it turn up any combinations that worked poorly together. Because most DBMSs run on top of a given operating system, it is also important to study efficient buffer management under the paging algorithm of the given operating system. It is recommended that, instead of prefetching pages at the time of a buffer hit, pages should only be tag-along fetched at the time of a demand fetch.","For more investigation, we recommend that experiments be done with working DBMSs to verify/implement the results. 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