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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 17, 2002
Filed:
Sep. 30, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
Clark Debs Jeffries, Durham, NC (US);
Piyush Chunilal Patel, Cary, NC (US);
Gail Irene Woodland, Chapel Hill, NC (US);
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/200 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/200 ;
Abstract
A method and system for performing aging of a memory in a computer system is disclosed. The memory contains a plurality of items. The method and system include purging the memory of a portion of the plurality of items each time an epoch equal to an aging variable has expired. The method and system further include providing the aging variable for a new epoch based on a performance of the memory in a previous epoch, including the aging variable of the previous epoch.