Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.p.

Bradd William Szonye

William N Pohl

Chukwuma Valentine Akpuokwe

Walter J Searle

It is determined that a memory pressure condition exists which limits how many active processes are allowed. There is generated and stored of a set of values corresponding to parameters for each process where the parameters are related to priority factors assigned to the associated process. There is calculated a prioritization score for each process based on the corresponding set of values. There is determined a first active process with the lowest priority based on the prioritization scores. The first active process is deactivated to reduce the memory pressure condition.

Prioritization of processes for deactivating processes to reduce memory pressure condition

An embodiment of the invention provides a concrete data type and a method for providing a cached chunked list concrete data type. The method can perform steps including: storing at least one datum in a chunk in a cache line; and setting a lower bit value (LB) in a link/space pointer in the chunk to indicate the empty slots in the chunk.

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Bradd William Szonye