Larchant-RDOSS: A distributed shared persistent memory and its garbage collector
Marc Shapiro, Paulo A. V. Ferreira · Lecture notes in computer science · 1995
Larchant-RDOSS is a distributed shared memory that persists on reliable storage across process lifetimes. Memory management is automatic: caching of data and of locks, coherence, collecting objects unreachable from the persistent root, writing reachable objects to disk, and reducing store fragmentation. Memory management is based on a novel garbage collection algorithm, that (i) approximates a global trace by a series of partial traces within dynamically determined subsets of the memory, (ii) causes no extra I/O or locking traffic, and (iii) needs no extra synchronization between the collector and the application processes. This results in a simple programming model, and expected minimal added application latency. The algorithm is designed for the most unfavorable environment (uncontrolled programming language, reference by pointers, non-coherent shared memory) and should work well also in more favorable settings. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.