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Date of Patent:
Aug. 24, 2021

Filed:

Mar. 26, 2019
Applicant:

Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., Shenzhen, CN;

Inventors:

Qibin Yang, Hangzhou, CN;

Xiaojun Duan, Shenzhen, CN;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/46 (2006.01); G06F 9/50 (2006.01); G06F 9/445 (2018.01); G06F 12/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/5022 (2013.01); G06F 9/445 (2013.01); G06F 12/02 (2013.01); G06F 12/023 (2013.01);
Abstract

A memory reclamation method and apparatus, where the method includes determining a target process from a background process list when current available memory of a system is less than a memory threshold, where the background process list includes a process of one or more applications, the target process is a process among the process of the one or more applications meeting a condition that an absolute value of a difference between memory occupied by the process and a memory pressure value is less than a preset threshold, and the memory pressure value is a difference between the memory threshold and the current available memory of the system, and sending a processing instruction to a system kernel to trigger the system kernel to reclaim the memory occupied by the target process.


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