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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Oct. 12, 1999

Filed:

Apr. 23, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:

Danny Brice Gross, Bastrop, TX (US);

Michael Douglas O'Donnell, Austin, TX (US);

Gene Regis Toomey, Kyle, TX (US);

Assignee:

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
713100 ;
Abstract

In a computer system operating under control of a UNIX type operating system, a primary swap space is decreased without reinstalling the operating system. The computer system includes a first storage device. The first storage device includes the primary swap space. The primary swap space has a first size. The method includes booting the computer system to a maintenance mode and activating the first storage device as an active storage device of the computer system if the first storage device is not already an active storage device of the computer system. The method further includes deactivating the primary swap space and activating the primary swap space at a second size smaller than the first size.


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