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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 14, 2008
Filed:
Jun. 12, 2003
Christian Paul Stackhouse, Bothell, WA (US);
Abhishek Agarwal, Hyderabad, IN;
Narendra Babu T. V., Hyderabad, IN;
Sujoy Gupta, Hyderabad, IN;
Padma Priya A. B., Hyderabad, IN;
Paramesh Vaidyanathan, Hyderabad, IN;
Manoj K. Valiyaparambil, Hyderabad, IN;
Christian Paul Stackhouse, Bothell, WA (US);
Abhishek Agarwal, Hyderabad, IN;
Narendra Babu T. V., Hyderabad, IN;
Sujoy Gupta, Hyderabad, IN;
Padma Priya A. B., Hyderabad, IN;
Paramesh Vaidyanathan, Hyderabad, IN;
Manoj K. Valiyaparambil, Hyderabad, IN;
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
An automatic resource management service implements a policy to automatically control resource usage by processes running on a computer. A policy expresses criteria for identifying process sets, and imposes allocations and sub-allocations or resource amounts to be used by given process sets and subsets. Exclusion lists are used in an embodiment of the invention to exclude processes from management by the management service. In an embodiment of the invention the resources whose use is managed are CPU resources, although in further embodiments the managed resources include memory resources as well.