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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 25, 1995
Filed:
Nov. 08, 1991
Kurt E Augustine, Durham, NC (US);
Chih-Wei Chao, Raleigh, NC (US);
Arthur A Daniel, Rochester, MN (US);
Jacalyn L Frantz, Cary, NC (US);
David N Jacobson, Durham, NC (US);
Keith E Karlsson, Raleigh, NC (US);
Kathleen D Lee, Raleigh, NC (US);
Daniel E Levenson, Apex, NC (US);
Robert E Moore, Durham, NC (US);
Michael Willett, Raleigh, NC (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A plurality of processes share a single set of non-resettable counters which are sampled periodically. Each process maintains a list of counter relationships unique to its own process and compares at each sample time the current sampled counter values with a selected function of previously received counter values for each relationship in its list and establishes a counter reset value which is a selected function of the current sampled value when the previously selected function is satisfied.