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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jan. 02, 2018

Filed:

Jan. 28, 2016
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

David C. Reed, Tucson, AZ (US);

Michael R. Scott, Honolulu, HI (US);

Max D. Smith, Tucson, AZ (US);

Ryan J. Wisniewski, Ingleside, IL (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/50 (2006.01); G06F 12/02 (2006.01); G06F 9/48 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/5011 (2013.01); G06F 9/4881 (2013.01); G06F 9/5022 (2013.01); G06F 12/02 (2013.01); G06F 12/023 (2013.01); G06F 2212/251 (2013.01); Y02B 60/142 (2013.01);
Abstract

Provided are a computer program product, system, and method for modifying memory space allocation for inactive tasks. Information is maintained on computational resources consumed by tasks running in the computer system allocated memory space in the memory. The information on the computational resources consumed by the tasks is used to determine inactive tasks of the tasks. The allocation of the memory space allocated to at least one of the determined inactive tasks is modified.


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