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Date of Patent:
Jan. 24, 2023

Filed:

May. 29, 2019
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Mathew Accapadi, Cedar Park, TX (US);

Bret R. Olszewski, Austin, TX (US);

Grover Cleveland Davidson, II, Leander, TX (US);

Chad Collie, Springdale, AR (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/00 (2006.01); G06F 12/0804 (2016.01); G06F 16/172 (2019.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/0804 (2013.01); G06F 16/172 (2019.01); G06F 2212/1044 (2013.01);
Abstract

Disclosed is a computer implemented method to manage a cache, the method comprising, determining that a primary application opens a first file, wherein opening the first file includes reading the first file into a file cache from a storage. The method also includes, setting a first monitoring variable in the primary application process proc structure, wherein the first monitoring variable is set in response to the primary application opening the first file, and the first monitoring variable records a set of operations completed on the first file by the primary application. The method comprises a first read of the first file being at a beginning of the first file. The method includes identifying that the first file is read according to a pattern that includes reading the first file sequentially and reading the first file entirely and removing the first file from the file cache.


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