Using Multiple Servers in Concurrent Garbage Collector

Object-oriented programming languages are being widely adopted as one of the most powerful languages due their flexibility and reusability. However, these languages suffer from memory mismanagement that could be critical especially in real-time and embedded systems. Automatic memory management through garbage collector handles this problem. Concurrent garbage collection based on sporadic or deferrable server is considered the most famous collectors in this area. In such algorithms, the garbage collection task is assumed to be the single aperiodic task in the system. When there are other different types of traffic, with short deadlines and long deadlines, the single server provides poor performance. The garbage collection task may have to wait till a less urgent or a higher deadline request finishes its execution that leads to an increase in the system memory requirement and perhaps a deadline miss of the garbage collection thread. This paper concentrates on minimizing the system memor...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2008
• Where: JOT
• Authors: Ali Ebrahim El Desokey, Amany Sarhan, Seham Moawed
• Keywords: Garbage Collection, Garbage Collection Task, Garbage Collectors, JOT 2008