Garbage Collector Tuning in Pathological Allocation Pattern Applications

Palumbo, Nahuel; Montaño, Sebastian; Polito, Guillermo; Tesone, Pablo; Ducasse, Stephane

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Communication dans un congrès avec actes

Titre :

Garbage Collector Tuning in Pathological Allocation Pattern Applications

Auteur(s) :

Palumbo, Nahuel [Auteur]
Reflective Evolution of Ever-running Software Systems [EVREF]
Centre de Recherche en Informatique, Signal et Automatique de Lille - UMR 9189 [CRIStAL]
Montaño, Sebastian [Auteur]
Reflective Evolution of Ever-running Software Systems [EVREF]
Centre de Recherche en Informatique, Signal et Automatique de Lille - UMR 9189 [CRIStAL]
Polito, Guillermo [Auteur]

Reflective Evolution of Ever-running Software Systems [EVREF]
Centre de Recherche en Informatique, Signal et Automatique de Lille - UMR 9189 [CRIStAL]
Tesone, Pablo [Auteur]
Centre de Recherche en Informatique, Signal et Automatique de Lille - UMR 9189 [CRIStAL]
Ducasse, Stephane [Auteur]

Reflective Evolution of Ever-running Software Systems [EVREF]
Centre de Recherche en Informatique, Signal et Automatique de Lille - UMR 9189 [CRIStAL]

Titre de la manifestation scientifique :

IWST 2023: International Workshop on Smalltalk Technologies

Ville :

Lyon

Pays :

France

Date de début de la manifestation scientifique :

2023-08-29

Titre de l’ouvrage :

CEUR-WS Proceedings

Mot(s)-clé(s) en anglais :

memory profiler
memory management
virtual machine
Pharo
Smalltalk
garbage collector

Discipline(s) HAL :

Informatique [cs]/Langage de programmation [cs.PL]

Résumé en anglais : [en]

Automatic memory management is often supported by Garbage Collectors (GC). GC usually impacts running application performance. For tuning properly, they expose some parameters to support the adaptation of their algorithms ...
Lire la suite >Automatic memory management is often supported by Garbage Collectors (GC). GC usually impacts running application performance. For tuning properly, they expose some parameters to support the adaptation of their algorithms to specific applications' scenarios. In some cases, the developers should modify the GC parameter values to achieve high performance. However, many application developers cannot be expected to perform expert analysis to determine which parameter values are the best for their application. There are techniques to find "good enough" parameter values. But, even if the overhead was reduced, it is still unknown the cause of the problem and how the GC tuning managed it. In this paper, we present a methodology to identify the causes of GC overhead in Pharo applications for tuning GC parameters. We describe the GC inside the PharoVM and its parameters, looking at how their variations change the allocation behaviour. We were able to analyse, identify and understand the GC performance issues present in one real application and suggest specific GC tuning actions. Using the suggested parameter values, we improved its performance by up to 12x and reduced GC overhead by up to 3.8x. During the experiments, we also found: 1) a bug in the production PharoVM concerning the tenuring policy, 2) a misconception about one GC parameter even for the VM developers, and 3) some possible improvements for the current GC implementation.Lire moins >

Langue :

Anglais

Comité de lecture :

Oui

Audience :

Internationale

Vulgarisation :

Non

Collections :

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