Jinwoo Hwang

A couple of patterns that could cause Java heap exhaustion were identified from years of research at IBM. One interesting scenario was observed when Java applications generated an excessive amount of finalizable objects whose classes had non-trivial Java finalizers. What Is a Ja... (more)
We can visualize resource starvation using an elaborate rendition of the Dining Philosophers Problem. This classic metaphor of resource allocation among processes was first introduced in 1971 by Edsger Dijkstra in his paper "Hierarchical Ordering of Sequential Processes." It's be... (more)
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