Monitoring Memory-Related Software Aging: An Exploratory Study

Author

Matias, Rivalino ; Costa, B.E. ; Macedo, Andre

Author_Institution

Sch. of Comput. Sci., Fed. Univ. of Uberlandia, Uberlandia, Brazil

fYear

2012

fDate

27-30 Nov. 2012

Firstpage

247

Lastpage

252

Abstract

The accumulating effects of software aging have direct influence to the rate of aging-related failures. So far, the most investigated software aging effects are memory related, such as memory leak and memory fragmentation problems. In this work, we present a practical body of knowledge to support the solid understanding of the most important issues in monitoring memory-related software aging effects, focusing on memory leak problems. We discuss important drawbacks of using well known system-wide and application-specific aging indicators, as well as propose effective solutions for both cases.

Keywords

software maintenance; software reliability; system monitoring; system recovery; aging-related failures; application-specific aging indicators; memory fragmentation; memory leak; monitoring memory-related software aging; software aging effects; system-wide aging indicators; Aging; Kernel; Memory management; Monitoring; Runtime; Software aging; exploratory study; memory leaks; software rejuvenation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Software Reliability Engineering Workshops (ISSREW), 2012 IEEE 23rd International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Dallas, TX

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-5048-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISSREW.2012.90

Filename

6405450