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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 04, 2017
Filed:
Sep. 25, 2012
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Anthony Ffrench, Medford, MA (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A second memory allocator receives a request to allocate memory from a second process of the second memory allocator executing on a computer, and determines that memory for allocation to the second process is not available from a memory hoard of the second memory allocator. The second memory allocator determines that memory for allocation to the second process is not available from an operating system of the computer, and transmits the request to release memory to a first memory allocator. The first memory allocator of a first process executing on the computer receives the request from the second memory allocator executing on the computer to release memory. Responsive to the request from the second memory allocator to release memory, the first memory allocator releases hoarded memory previously hoarded for allocation to the first process.