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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 29, 2017
Filed:
Mar. 26, 2015
Applicant:
Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Inventors:
Dung Nguyen Tien, Newport News, VA (US);
Fraidun Akhi, Fremont, CA (US);
Jonathan Cook, San Francisco, CA (US);
Assignee:
FACEBOOK, INC., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/02 (2006.01); G06F 12/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/0246 (2013.01); G06F 12/0638 (2013.01); G06F 2212/205 (2013.01); G06F 2212/7201 (2013.01); G06F 2212/7211 (2013.01);
Abstract
An electronic device with volatile memory repeatedly compares an amount of free volatile memory to a first predetermined threshold level of free volatile memory. When the device determines that the amount of free volatile memory is less than the first predetermined threshold level, the device deallocates volatile memory by terminating one or more processes based on predetermined priority levels of the one or more processes.