Patent ID: 7398369
Filing Date: 2008-07-08
Classification: G06F,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A method to manage memory leakage for a computer system, the method comprising: monitoring, by the computer system, memory allocations and memory deallocations associated with a task; analyzing, by the computer system, the memory allocations and memory deallocations by a task of the computer system to detect a suspect allocation pattern associated with the memory leakage; determining, by the computer system, to terminate the task in response to an evaluation of the suspect allocation pattern and an impact of restarting the task on other operations by the computer system; selecting, by the computer system, a time to terminate the task after time critical operations cease if termination of the task will affect a critical operation in progress; and generating, by the computer system, an output in response to selecting the time to terminate the task to attenuate the memory leakage.