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cache miss

A failure to find the required instruction or data in the cache. In such a case, the item is read from main memory. Contrast with cache hit. See cache.

(storage)

cache miss - A request to read from memory which cannot be satisfied from the cache, for which the main memory has to be consulted.

Opposite: cache hit.

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For example, a processor might fail when a particular instruction is in a specific pipeline stage at the same time that a data FIFO is full and a cache miss occurs and a specific interrupt arrives.

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The system uses adaptive cache algorithms that help to decrease the cache miss rate, all of which ultimately require statistical feedback, such as most frequently-accessed documents, most frequently-requested search terms, etc.

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