Technique for throttling data access requests
US7529836B1 · kind B1 · utility
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| Filing date | Jan 8, 2004 |
| Grant date | May 5, 2009 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jul 6, 2026 |
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- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06F3/067
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A system and method for throttling data access rates through data containers prevents starvation of storage system resources by active clients. A SCSI throttle module of a storage operating system of storage system determines if the number of outstanding access requests associated with the client or initiator group exceeds a preset throttle value.
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