Automatic heap sizing: Taking real memory into account

International Symposium on Memory Management, ISMM

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 61-72

  Yang, Ting ^a   Hertz, Matthew ^a   Berger, Emery D ^a   Kaplan, Scott F ^b   Eliot, J ^b   Moss, B ^b  

^a Biologically Inspired Neural and Dynamical Systems Laboratory   (United States)

^b AMHERST COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Garbage collection; Paging; Virtual memory

Indexed keywords

GARBAGE COLLECTION; HEAP SIZING; PAGING; SAFELY ALLOWED DROP (SAD); VIRTUAL MEMORY;

ALGORITHMS; BUFFER STORAGE; C (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); COMPUTER SIMULATION; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; PROGRAM PROCESSORS; RANDOM ACCESS STORAGE; VIRTUAL REALITY; VIRTUAL STORAGE;

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES;

EID: 21644439179     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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