Patent ID: 8122454
Filing Date: 2012-02-21
Classification: G06F,Y10S

Abstract:
1. One or more machine-readable storage media having instructions stored thereon, the instructions, when executed, causing a set of one or more processors to perform operations that comprise: determining that a total memory footprint of a system has reached a predetermined level; identifying at least one object pertaining to a user of a plurality of users of the system; determining a user memory footprint by calculating the memory footprint of the at least one object, wherein the user memory footprint is a memory footprint of the user in the shared memory system; and constraining the user memory footprint such that the total memory footprint of the system is limited, wherein the identifying at least one object comprises identifying a principal object and identifying at least one further object related to the principal object, wherein identifying the at least one further object comprises performing a recursive marking operation which stops at one of: