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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 21, 2006
Filed:
Mar. 27, 2002
Applicants:
Sumit Roy, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Kenneth Mark Wilson, San Jose, CA (US);
Inventors:
Sumit Roy, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Kenneth Mark Wilson, San Jose, CA (US);
Assignee:
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
In a method for optimizing performance in a memory system, a data structure configured to provide at least one free block of memory is received in the memory system. At least one bucket of memory is released in a swap device of the memory system corresponding to at least one free block of memory provided by the data structure.