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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 05, 2015
Filed:
Apr. 17, 2007
Michael Zoll, Redwood City, CA (US);
Wilson Wai Shun Chan, San Mateo, CA (US);
Angelo Pruscino, Los Altos, CA (US);
Tak Fung Wang, Redwood City, CA (US);
Michael Zoll, Redwood City, CA (US);
Wilson Wai Shun Chan, San Mateo, CA (US);
Angelo Pruscino, Los Altos, CA (US);
Tak Fung Wang, Redwood City, CA (US);
Oracle International Corporation, Redwood Shores, CA (US);
Abstract
Techniques for monitoring resources of a computer system are provided. A monitoring process collects and reports utilization data for one or more resources of a computer system, such as CPU, memory, disk I/O, and network I/O. Instead of reporting just an average of the collected data over a period of time (e.g., 10 seconds), the monitoring process at least reports individually collected resource utilization values. If one or more of the utilization values exceed specified thresholds for the respective resources, then an alert may be generated. In one approach, the monitoring process is made a real-time priority process in the computer system to ensure that the memory used by the monitoring process is not swapped out of memory. Also, being a real-time priority process ensures that the monitoring process obtains a CPU in order collect resource utilization data even when the computer system is in a starvation mode.