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Towards a Theory of Replicated Processing

Lookup NU author(s): Emeritus Professor Santosh Shrivastava

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Abstract

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.


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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


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