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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 11, 2010
Filed:
Aug. 02, 2005
Kalyanaraman Vaidyanathan, San Diego, CA (US);
Sajjit Thampy, La Jolla, CA (US);
Kenny C. Gross, San Diego, CA (US);
Kalyanaraman Vaidyanathan, San Diego, CA (US);
Sajjit Thampy, La Jolla, CA (US);
Kenny C. Gross, San Diego, CA (US);
Oracle America, Inc., Redwood Shores, CA (US);
Abstract
A system that identifies processes with a memory leak in a computer system. During operation, the system periodically samples memory usage for processes running on the computer system. The system then ranks the processes by memory usage and selects a specified number of processes with highest memory usage based on the ranking. For each selected process, the system computes a first-order difference of memory usage by taking a difference between the memory usage at a current sampling time and the memory usage at an immediately preceding sampling time. The system then generates a memory-leak index based on the first-order difference and a preceding memory-leak index computed at the immediately preceding sampling time.