Abstract
Garbage collection is a fundamental component of memory management in several software frameworks. We present a general two-dimensional Markovian model of a queue with garbage collection where the input process is Markov-modulated and the memory consumption can be modeled with discretisation. We derive important performance measures (also including garbage collection-related measures like mean garbage collection cycle length). The model is validated via measurements from a real-life data processing pipeline.
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We would like to thank Miklós Telek and Gábor Horváth for their valuable help and insight. This research is partially supported by the OTKA K123914 project.
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Horváth, I., Finta, I., Kovács, F., Mészáros, A., Molontay, R., Varga, K. (2017). Markovian Queue with Garbage Collection. In: Thomas, N., Forshaw, M. (eds) Analytical and Stochastic Modelling Techniques and Applications. ASMTA 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10378. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-61428-1_8
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