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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 04, 2015
Filed:
May. 06, 2011
Mark E. Obrecht, Austin, TX (US);
Robert P. Myers, Austin, TX (US);
Alfred C. Hartmann, Round Rock, TX (US);
Nick F. Alagna, Austin, TX (US);
Kevin N. Pyle, Austin, TX (US);
Scott D. Sullivan, Austin, TX (US);
Michael W. Little, Austin, TX (US);
Mark E. Obrecht, Austin, TX (US);
Robert P. Myers, Austin, TX (US);
Alfred C. Hartmann, Round Rock, TX (US);
Nick F. Alagna, Austin, TX (US);
Kevin N. Pyle, Austin, TX (US);
Scott D. Sullivan, Austin, TX (US);
Michael W. Little, Austin, TX (US);
Ziften Technologies, Inc., Austin, TX (US);
Abstract
Techniques are disclosed relating to improving resource usage on a computer system. In one embodiment, a computer system identifies a plurality of processes running on the computer system and determines an importance value and a resource consumption value. In such an embodiment, the importance value is indicative of an importance of an identified process, and the resource consumption value is indicative of a resource consumption of the identified process. The computer system evaluates the importance value and the resource consumption value relative to a usage policy, and takes a corrective action with respect to the identified process based on the evaluating to reconcile resource consumption with process importance value.