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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 30, 2013
Filed:
Dec. 22, 2010
Charles R. Gracie, Kanata, CA;
Andrew R. Low, Stittsville, CA;
Ashutosh Mehra, Bangalore, IN;
Prashanth K. Nageshappa, Karnataka, IN;
Charles R. Gracie, Kanata, CA;
Andrew R. Low, Stittsville, CA;
Ashutosh Mehra, Bangalore, IN;
Prashanth K. Nageshappa, Karnataka, IN;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Garbage collection processes are automatically tuned on a system comprising a plurality of virtual machines running on a physical processing device with multiple physical processors. Tuning is implemented for each garbage collection process, by updating a load variable to reflect that a new garbage collection process has started, the load variable having a value that is based at least in part on a number of garbage collection processes that are currently running on the system. Tuning further comprises creating a number of garbage collection threads based at least in part on the current value of the load variable and/or number of processors, where the garbage collection threads are used to perform at least a portion of at least one phase of the new garbage collection process. Tuning further comprises re-updating the load variable to reflect completion of the new garbage collection process.