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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 05, 2009
Filed:
Jan. 08, 2004
Applicant:
David Brittain Bolen, Wake County, NC (US);
Inventor:
David Brittain Bolen, Wake County, NC (US);
Assignee:
Network Appliance, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/173 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A system and method for throttling data access rates through data containers prevents starvation of storage system resources by active clients. A SCSI throttle module of a storage operating system of storage system determines if the number of outstanding access requests associated with the client or initiator group exceeds a preset throttle value.