SELIGMANN, J., AND 235-252, S. G. . E. . Incremental mature garbage collection using the Train algorithm. In Proceedings of the European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming ( Aarhus, Denmark, Aug.). vol. 952 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer-Verlag, 1995, pp. 235--252.  Home/Search   Document Details and Download   Summary   Related Articles   Check

.... machine would only collect those ephemeral generations that were full [28] and the mature object space collector (usually called the train algorithm) invented by Hudson and Moss, will collect data in an order that is similar to older first but that is also influenced by the topology of the heap [15, 22]. Spurred by Baker s conjecture that generational collection had no theoretical advantage over non generational collection for the radioactive decay model, we invented the ROF algorithm described here, and showed its theoretical advantage by calculation [2, 9] We also outlined the implementation ....

Jacob Seligmann and Steffen Grarup. Incremental mature garbage collection using the train algorithm. In Proceedings of 1995.

....[67] barrier Copy Herlihy, Moss [38] ffl ffl barrier Copy Engelstad al. 28] ms read barrier Copy Baker [7] barrier Treadmill Hennessey [37] 8 30 ms Mark Sweep Nettles al. 58, 59] 50 ms write barrier Rep. Copy Hudson, Moss [41] Seligman, Grarup [65] 95 50 120 ms write barrier Train Doligez al. 25, 24] 360 barrier Copy, Mark Sweep Larose, Feeley [49] 5 15 ms write barrier Mark Sweep Lim al. 51] ms write barrier, VM support Treadmill Huelsbergen [42] 80 ms write barrier Mark Sweep Endo ....

Jacob Seligmann and Steffen Grarup. Incremental mature garbage collection using the train algorithm. In O. Nierstras, editor, Proceedings of 1995.

.... generational collection, to the Java platform [14] Finally, an algorithm that has been gaining popularity lately is the mature object space algorithm, usually called the train algorithm, originally proposed by Hudson and Moss [19] and first implemented and analysed by Seligmann and Grarup [26]. In this algorithm, the heap is split into small regions (train cars) each of which can be collected independently (at the cost of maintenance of inter car remembered sets) Garbage cycles, which can span several cars, are dealt with by the live objects being copied out of each region into other ....

J. Seligmann and S. Grarup. Incremental Mature Garbage Collection using the Train Algorithm. In European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming. Springer-Verlag, August 1995.

.... generational collection, to the Java platform [12] Finally, an algorithm that has been gaining popularity lately is the mature object space algorithm, usually called the train algorithm, originally proposed by Hudson and Moss [17] and first implemented and analysed by Seligmann and Grarup [24]. In this algorithm, the heap is split into small regions (train cars) each of which can be collected independently (at the cost of maintenance of inter car remembered sets) Garbage cycles, which can span several cars, are dealt with by the live objects being copied out of each region into other ....

J. Seligmann and S. Grarup. Incremental Mature Garbage Collection using the Train Algorithm. In European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming. Springer-Verlag, August 1995.

....has worked on collection techniques directed at mature objects, the Mature Object Space (MOS) collector, also called the Train Algorithm [8] The objective of that work, though, is not so much the minimization of total garbage collection cost as avoidance of disruptive pauses. Seligmann and Grarup [11] implemented MOS and found it to work quite well. It both keeps pauses short and keeps heap usage very close to the amount of live data. What makes MOS relevant here is that if we ignore the fact that it will tend to reorganize objects according to their reachability, it is an oldest first ....

Jacob Seligmann and Steffen Grarup. Incremental mature garbage collection using the train algorith. In O. Nierstras, editor, Proceedings of 1995 European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, University of Aarhus, August 1995. Springer-Verlag.

....To guarantee progress, each car should also remember at least one of its objects reachable from outside the train. It should remember from where these objects were reached (i.e. a root or a specific train) and it should treat these objects as reachable from that source. See Seligman and Grarup [SG95] for further details. This algorithm is safe (reclaims only unreachable objects) coarse grained incremental (processes only one car at a time) and complete (eventually reclaims each garbage object) But how do we distribute it Here are considerations that arise and how we handle them: First, we ....

J. Seligmann & S. Grarup, "Incremental Mature Garbage Collection using the Train Algorithm". Proc. of 1995 Eur. Conf. on Object-Oriented Prog. (ECOOP '95), O. Nierstras, ed., LNCS, Springer-Verlag (1995).

....is not necessary to use a stable virtual memory with its attended problems. Policies that will be considered include where to place new objects, where to move reachable objects during a collection, how frequently to collect, how to select cars for collection and how to accommodate popular objects [SG95]. The placement of new objects may involve placing objects in the youngest train subject to some fill limit. It may be desirable to limit the number of new objects placed in a particular train in the hope that objects created together will become garbage together. This may lead to more trains ....

Jacob Seligmann and Steffen Grarup. Incremental mature garbage collection using the train algorithm. In Proceedings of the European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP `95) (Aarhus, Denmark, August 1995), no. 952 in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, SpringerVerlag, pp. 235-252.

....on pages for disk IO. Pages are of a xed size and typically rather large, i.e. 32 kB, in order to minimize disk seeking. By choosing page sizes to be a power of two and aligning the database suitably, it is possible to translate cell addresses to page numbers with simple shift right instructions [11, 22]. Mature generations consist in a varying number of often non adjacent pages. The database image consists of the root block, the rst generation, possibly thousands of mature generations, and of free pages not belonging to a mature generation. Since dynamic memory allocation takes place in the ....

J. Seligmann and S. Grarup. Incremental mature garbage collection using the train algorithm. In O. Nierstras, editor, Proceedings of 1995 European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, University of Aarhus, Aug. 1995. Springer-Verlag.

....the same remedy, suggested in the preceding section, applies. Alternatively, the purely age based scheme can be modified, with provisions similar to the train algorithm for the mature object space, which tackles the problem of cycles while maintaining incrementality [Hudson and Moss, 1992; Seligmann and Grarup, 1995] Note that the results presented here are based on a simulator and a prototype implementation which do not implement any mechanism to enforce reclamation of cycles. 3.1.6 Locality Our study is based on extensive simulations, in order to explore a large number of collector configurations, and ....

....can be argued, pending further measurements, that, with remembered set costs having already been absorbed in the mature object space [Hudson and Moss, 1992] deferred older first becomes a collection policy worth exploring. It is a different policy from the train algorithm [Hudson and Moss, 1992; Seligmann and Grarup, 1995]; in particular, it does not guarantee reclamation of arbitrary cycles. On the other hand, the train algorithm leaves certain promotion decisions for objects moved out of a train underspecified; whereas locality (for the purpose of exploiting key object opportunism [Hayes, 1991] is suggested as ....

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Jacob Seligmann and Steffen Grarup. Incremental mature garbage collection using the train algorithm. In O. Nierstras, editor, Proceedings of 1995 European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 235--252, University of Aarhus, August 1995. Springer-Verlag.

....trains, and the algorithm aims at relocating clusters of garbage into a single train and at the same time relocating living objects (that are not part of the cluster) out of the train. In this paper, we do not discuss the correctness of the algorithm, nor its efficiency. We refer the reader to [4, 6] for motivations, details, and an implementation. Here, we specify some details of the algorithm that are relevant for our solution. First, when a car is collected, the young generation is collected as well. Actually, the young generation may sometimes be collected without any car collection. ....

.... In this section we have described a scheme that deals with one young generation and one old generation (which is split into cars) It is also possible to adapt our scheme for a scheme with several young generations and one old generation that is split into cars (such a scheme was suggested in [4, 6]. We only have to add for each generation a time stamp indicating when the remembered set of this generation was last updated. This time stamp should be updated by the collector whenever it scans the corresponding generation. When scanning a generation g with time stamp t, it is easy to decide ....

J. Seligmann and S. Grarup. Incremental mature garbage collection using the train algorithm. In O. Nierstras, editor. Proceedings of 1995 European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. SpringerVerlag, August 1995.

....generation. In general, we expect less conflicts in this case since the collectors compete on more than one pointer. Thus, the limit on the size needed to actually allocate could be made smaller. 7. 4 The train algorithm We would like to point out that our scheme also fits the train algorithm [18, 28]. There, the young generation may be collected together with a car from the old generation. Again, remembered sets and card marking can be used to record inter generational pointers (a detailed discussion on this combination for the train algorithm appears in [3] Almost the same algorithm (as ....

J. Seligmann and S. Grarup. Incremental mature garbage collection using the train algorithm. In O. Nierstras, editor. Proceedings of 1995 European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer-Verlag, August 1995.

....on just in time (JIT) compilers as well as on native compilers is currently performed and therefore a lot of further speedup will be obtained in the near future. The main point against Java is performance, but it is expected that within a factor of 1:5 to 3 one can get close to the speed of C [13, 10]. SUN claims that using adaptive compilation of Java byte codes as well as improved garbage collection and locking, Java applications might run as fast as compiled C [14] The BSP approach is fundamentally different from the message passing used in Java, PVM (Portal Virtual Machines [8] or MPI ....

S. Grarup and J. Seligmann. Incremental mature garbage collection using the train algorithm. In Proceedings of ECOOP'95, Ninth European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Marina del Rey, California, 1995. Springer Verlag.

....moved to older areas (generations) UJ88] The GC scheduling is done in the last minute and tenuring can generate GC cycles in the next older generation and so on. In the worst case there is a snowball effect of GC cycles generated in all generations. A recent improvement, the train algorithm [HM92,SG95] has presented a technique to organize also old garbage in smaller areas, collected one at the time, limiting GC stops to typically 100 ms. Splitting up memory in a large number of very small areas would potentially be a technique to bring down the time for a GC stop. However, GC in one area ....

J. Seligmann and S. Grarup. Incremental Mature Garbage Collection Using the Train Algorithm. Proceedings of ECOOP'95, European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Aarhus, Denmark, August 1995.

....train and all cars from the oldest train at each invocation. 5 The expectation is that by always choosing the youngest train then a significant amount of space from temporary objects is reclaimed quickly. A new train is created at the end of a collection invocation 4 Seligmann and Grarup [SG95] found a problem in the original MOS algorithm which can be avoided by recording a reference from a car of a another train to a car in this train. 5 We are aware that this impacts on our claim of non disruptiveness. With inaccurate remset information it is difficult to accurately detect empty ....

Jacob Seligmann and Steffen Grarup. Incremental mature garbage collection using the train algorithm. In Proceedings of the European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP `95) (Aarhus, Denmark, August 1995), no. 952 in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer-Verlag, pp. 235-252.

....of pointer distances and directions, and object lifetimes. This investigation applies each algorithm to the entire heap. Our results also lead us to believe that a deferred older first algorithm should work well in the mature space of a two stage collector [Bishop, 1977; Hudson and Moss, 1992; Seligmann and Grarup, 1995]. This question remains for future work. The remainder of this paper is organized as follows. Section 2 situates this work in the context of prior work on GC algorithms. Section 3 further motivates our work by exploring the veracity of the two beliefs, their implications, and the strengths and ....

....collection, at the risk of long pause times, finds these cycles by collecting the whole heap occasionally. Alternatively, we could combine our approach with algorithms for the mature object space, which tackle the problem of cycles while maintaining incrementality [Hudson and Moss, 1992; Seligmann and Grarup, 1995]. Note that the simulations presented here do not implement any mechanism to enforce reclamation of cycles, and therefore could be penalized when compared with traditional generational collection. 3.5 Trace length We will report here on the copying cost performance of different garbage ....

Seligmann, J. and Grarup, S. (1995). Incremental mature garbage collection using the train algorithm. In Nierstras, O., editor, Proceedings of 1995 European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, University of Aarhus. Springer-Verlag.

....scheduling technique proposed in this paper should be directly applicable to these versions of generation scavenging. 6. 2 The train algorithm An example of a garbage collector using a variant of adaptive GC work scheduling is the train algorithm [HEM92] as implemented by Seligmann and Grarup [SG95]. The train algorithm is an improvement of the original generation scavenging technique where the old generation is garbage collected by a non incremental garbage collector, resulting in occasional long delays. The old generation is divided into a number of equal sized sections called cars. The ....

J. Seligmann and S. Grarup. Incremental Mature Garbage Collection Using the Train Algorithm. In Proceedings of ECOOP'95. Aarhus, Denmark, August 1995.

....of the heap. A typical collection takes about 100 ms. on our platform, which introduces perceptible delays into the system. We are dealing with the collector overhead in two ways. The first is to use a better collector. We are examining concurrent and incremental garbage collection techniques [SG95, AEL88] to reduce disruptive system pauses. While a better collector can reduce the pause times, it will not directly address the overhead problem. If garbage is created, there is going to be a penalty to clean it up. Consequently, we also adopt a pro recycling attitude within the system, and ....

Jacob Seligmannand Steffen Grarup. Incrementalmaturegarbage collection using the train algorithm. In Proceedings of ECOOP'95, Ninth European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, volume 952, pages 235--252, 1995.

....and clustering. ffl It can be implemented on stock hardware and does not require special operating systems support such as pinning or external pager control. ffl It has been implemented, proved to be complete, and to achieve the stated objective of bounded time for any single collection [Seligmann Grarup, 1995]. The PMOS collector partitions the persistent address space into distinct areas and retains many of the same features and mechanisms of MOS, but with two important extensions: ffl Unlike MOS, the algorithm does not impose any constraints on the order of collection of the areas. Work by Cook, ....

....be collected eventually, and (as we shall see later) the algorithm is complete as described so far, this is true only provided that the mutator (running program) does not move pointers and roots around in between car collections. The MOS algorithm has the same problem, noted and fixed by Grarup [Seligmann Grarup, 1995]. Here is a description of the problem via an example. Suppose we have a cycle of objects lying in two cars, and one of the objects is a root. If we collect both cars, we would expect to remove all the objects to another train, but consider the following sequence of actions. We collect the car not ....

Jacob Seligmann and Steffen Grarup. Incremental mature garbage collection using the train algorithm. In Proceedings of the European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP '95) (Aarhus, Denmark, August 1995), no. 952 in LNCS, Spring-Verlag, pp. 235--252.

....the same remedy, suggested in the preceding section, applies. Alternatively, the purely age based scheme can be modified, with provisions similar to the train algorithm for the mature object space, which tackles the problem of cycles while maintaining incrementality [Hudson and Moss, 1992; Seligmann and Grarup, 1995] Note that the results presented here are based on a simulator and a prototype implementation which do not implement any mechanism to enforce reclamation of cycles. 3.1.6 Locality Our study is based on extensive simulations, in order to explore a large number of collector configurations, and ....

....can be argued, pending further measurements, that, with remembered set costs having already been absorbed in the mature object space [Hudson and Moss, 1992] deferred older first becomes a collection policy worth exploring. It is a different policy from the train algorithm [Hudson and Moss, 1992; Seligmann and Grarup, 1995]; in particular, it does not guarantee reclamation of arbitrary cycles. On the other hand, the train algorithm leaves certain promotion decisions for objects moved out of a train underspecified; whereas locality (for the purpose of exploiting key object opportunism [Hayes, 1991] is suggested as ....

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Jacob Seligmann and Steffen Grarup. Incremental mature garbage collection using the train algorithm. In O. Nierstras, editor, Proceedings of 1995 European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 235--252, University of Aarhus, August 1995. Springer-Verlag.

....of the heap. A typical collection takes about 100 ms. on our platform, which introduces perceptible delays into the system. We are dealing with the collector overhead in two ways. The first is to use a better collector. We are examining concurrent and incremental garbage collection techniques [Seligmann Grarup 95, Appel et al. 88] to reduce disruptive system pauses. While a better collector can reduce the pause times, it will not directly address the overhead problem. If garbage is created, there is going to be a penalty to clean it up. Consequently, we also adopt a pro recycling attitude within the ....

Seligmann, J. and Grarup, S. Incremental Mature Garbage Collection Using the Train Algorithm. In Proceedings of ECOOP'95, Ninth European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, volume 952, pages 235--252, 1995.

....move to a train younger than its youngest referent (as of some time) and . each car is eventually collected, which implies that . the oldest train is eventually evacuated. A completeness argument for the distributed collector, which also addresses the anomaly discovered by Seligmann and Grarup [SG95], is given later. 5 Train 2 Train 1 Y X R D E S F T freed Car m Car n Car o Car k root C root Train 3 Train 1 R D E S F T freed Car n Car o Car q Car p C Train 3 Train 1 R D E S F T freed Car o Car q new Car r Car p root C Sequence of four collections with a starting configuration of two ....

....outside the train, and also unreachable from new epoch objects in the train, and so are unreachable and it is correct to discard them. 7. 2 Completeness The completeness argument is similar to those found in Bishop [Bishop77] Hudson and Moss [HM92] Moss et al. MMH96] and Seligmann and Grarup [SG95]. The argument proceeds in two main steps. Firstly, we show that the oldest train will eventually be evacuated and secondly that all garbage in trains present at a given time t will be eventually collected. First we argue that the oldest train will be eventually collected. Consider the set of cars ....

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