Patent ID: 7188120
Filing Date: 2007-03-06
Classification: G06F,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A machine-implemented method, comprising: receiving one or more key values from a first process that executes in a first virtual operating system environment (VOSE) of a plurality of VOSEs controlled by a single operating system kernel instance; selecting, from a plurality of statistical data structures, one or more statistical data structures that are each identified by the one or more key values; determining whether any statistical data structure of the one or more statistical data structures is associated with the first VOSE, in which the first process executes; and if a particular statistical data structure of the one or more statistical data structures is associated with the first VOSE, then sending, to the first process, statistical data that is stored in the particular statistical data structure that is associated with the first VOSE; wherein the statistical data that is sent to the first process comprises statistics that indicate information about prior usage of a specific system resource with which the particular statistical data structure is associated.