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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 18, 2001
Filed:
Nov. 26, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
Jeffrey A. Dean, Menlo Park, CA (US);
James E. Hicks, Jr., Newton, MA (US);
Carl A. Waldspurger, Atherton, CA (US);
William E. Weihl, San Francisco, CA (US);
Assignee:
Compaq Computer Corporation, Houston, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/00 ;
Abstract
A method estimates statistics of properties of transactions processed by a memory sub-system of a computer system. The method randomly selects memory transactions processed by the memory sub-system. States of the system are recorded as samples while the selected transaction are processed by the memory sub-system. The recorded states from a subset of the selected transactions are statistically analyzed to estimate statistics of the memory transactions.