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The function of a garbage collector in a computer system is to reclaim storage that is no longer in use. Developing a garbage collector for a distributed system composed of autonomous computers (nodes) connected by a communication network poses a challenging problem:optimizing performance whilst achieving fault tolerance. The paper presents the design and implementation of a reference-count garbage collection scheme which is both efficient and fault tolerant. A distributed object-based system is considered where operations on remote objects are invoked via remote procedure calls has been enhanced to enable the collection of garbage arising from node crashes.
Author(s): Parrington GD, Shrivastava SK
Publication type: Report
Publication status: Published
Series Title: Computing Laboratory Technical Report Series
Year: 1988
Pages: 16
Print publication date: 01/04/1988
Source Publication Date: April 1988
Report Number: 260
Institution: Computing Laboratory, University of Newcastle upon Tyne
Place Published: Newcastle upon Tyne
URL: http://www.cs.ncl.ac.uk/publications/trs/papers/258.pdf
