للكاتبين :
Ali Ebrahim El Desokey1, Aida Abd El Gawad1, Amany Sarhan2, Seham Moawed3
1 Faculty of Engineering, Mansoura University, Egypt
2 Faculty of Engineering ,Tanta University, Egypt
3East Delta Company For Electricity, Egypt,
ABSTRACT
Due
to the importance of garbage collection mechanism, especially in real-time systems, a lot
of effort had been done. Meanwhile, concurrent garbage collection based on sporadic or
deferrable server may be considered as the significant topic in this area. In such topics, 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 which 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 memory requirement when there are
multiple sources of events by introducing a new concurrent garbage collector. In this new
collector, the system will have multiple servers; rather than one in other garbage collectors.
These servers can either share or not share their capacities, i.e. a server can use the unused
capacity of other servers in case of sharing. The two schemes give preference to higher
priority servers. However, after investigating both strategies, the capacity sharing scheme
gives lower response times for jobs with short deadlines, like GC task, than without capacity
sharing scheme. The simulation results show that multiple servers with capacity sharing based
garbage collection scheduling strategy with all its variations exhibits a better performance in
terms of reducing the system memory requirement and meeting most of deadlines than the
single server and multiple servers without capacity sharing based garbage collectors.