Apple Inc.

Rasha Eqbal

David Michael Chan

Lionel Divyang Desai

Andrew D Myrick

Jonathan R Reeves

James C McIlree

Karen A Crippes

Jeffrey D Curless

Techniques for memory management of a data processing system are described herein. According to one embodiment, a memory usage monitor executed by a processor of a data processing system monitors memory usages of groups of programs running within a memory of the data processing system. In response to determining that a first memory usage of a first group of the programs exceeds a first predetermined threshold, a user level reboot is performed in which one or more applications running within a user space of an operating system of the data processing system are terminated and relaunched. In response to determining that a second memory usage of a second group of the programs exceeds a second predetermined threshold, a system level reboot is performed in which one or more system components running within a kernel space of the operating system are terminated and relaunched.

Memory management of data processing systems

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Rasha Eqbal