GCLViz: Garbage Collection vs. Latency Visualization

Chihua Ma, Stanislav Liberman, Haifeng Zheng

2014

Abstract

This paper proposes a method that creates a multi-view interactive visualization that allows users to explore connections between garbage collection (GC) generated by Java Virtual Machine (JVM) and latency in applications used in financial transactions. With this tool users can explore large collections of GC and latency events, easily identify important events, and subsequently focus on the relationships and details of such events without losing the “big picture” perspective on the events as a whole. We discuss the impact of this tool on controlling the effects of GC on latency and variability in financial trades with an exchange.

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Ma C., Liberman S. and Zheng H. (2014). GCLViz: Garbage Collection vs. Latency Visualization . In Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Information Visualization Theory and Applications - Volume 1: IVAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2014) ISBN 978-989-758-005-5, pages 292-299. DOI: 10.5220/0004740902920299


in Bibtex Style

@conference{ivapp14,
author={Chihua Ma and Stanislav Liberman and Haifeng Zheng},
title={GCLViz: Garbage Collection vs. Latency Visualization},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Information Visualization Theory and Applications - Volume 1: IVAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2014)},
year={2014},
pages={292-299},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004740902920299},
isbn={978-989-758-005-5},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Information Visualization Theory and Applications - Volume 1: IVAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2014)
TI - GCLViz: Garbage Collection vs. Latency Visualization
SN - 978-989-758-005-5
AU - Ma C.
AU - Liberman S.
AU - Zheng H.
PY - 2014
SP - 292
EP - 299
DO - 10.5220/0004740902920299