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Real-time database exception monitoring tool using instance eviction data

US9027025B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateApr 17, 2007
Grant dateMay 5, 2015
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Expiry dateSep 1, 2030

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  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG06F2201/86
  • WIPO fieldComputer technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

Techniques for monitoring resources of a computer system are provided. A monitoring process collects and reports utilization data for one or more resources of a computer system, such as CPU, memory, disk I/O, and network I/O. Instead of reporting just an average of the collected data over a period of time (e.g., 10 seconds), the monitoring process at least reports individually collected resource utilization values. If one or more of the utilization values exceed specified thresholds for the respective resources, then an alert may be generated. In one approach, the monitoring process is made a real-time priority process in the computer system to ensure that the memory used by the monitoring process is not swapped out of memory. Also, being a real-time priority process ensures that the monitoring process obtains a CPU in order collect resource utilization data even when the computer system is in a starvation mode.

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