Re: Memory management and garbage collectors

[Neal H. Walfield]

At Mon, 17 Oct 2005 21:07:52 +0200,
Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> This is interesting.  We have always used three example applications
> for the need to increase quality of service by providing more control
> over physical resource usage:
> 
> 1. Databases
>    Stonebraker "Operating System Support for Database Management"
>    
> 2. Garbage Collectors
>    (eg A.W. Appel and K. Li.  Virtual Memory Primitives for User Programs.)
> 
> 3. Continuous Media applications
>    (eg G.E. Mapp An Object-Oriented Approach to Virtual Memory Management)

Scientific application would also benefit.  Consider Michael Cox and
David Ellsworth's "Application-Controlled Demand Paging for
Out-of-Core Visualization".


I see two types of potential benefits with respect to control over
physical resource usage: qualitative (what pages should be evicted)
and quantitative (how much memory is available).

Thanks,
Neal