1. Optimizations of discrete garbage collections in computer reliability systems
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Xufeng Zhao and Hongshuang Feng
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021103 operations research ,Computer science ,0211 other engineering and technologies ,020206 networking & telecommunications ,02 engineering and technology ,Reliability engineering ,0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering ,Renewal theory ,Dynamic storage ,Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality ,Garbage ,Reliability (statistics) ,Computer reliability ,Garbage collection - Abstract
In computer science community, garbage collection is a dynamic storage management technology to ensure the reliability of computer systems. In this paper, we consider two discrete garbage collection policies to meet the goal of time consumption for a generational garbage collector. That is, garbage collections occur at a nonhomogeneous Poisson process, (a) tenuring collection is triggered at the Nth minor collection preventively or at a threshold amount [Formula: see text] of surviving objects correctively, whichever takes place first, and (b), tenuring collection is triggered at the first collection when the amount of surviving objects has exceeded a threshold level [Formula: see text] and major collection is triggered at discrete times kT for a given T. Using the damage process and renewal theory, the expected cost rates are obtained, and their optimal policies for tenuring and major collections are discussed analytically and computed numerically.
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- 2021
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