Patent ID: 7793308
Filing Date: 2010-09-07
Classification: G06F,Y02D

Abstract:
1. A computer-implemented method for setting an operation based resource utilization threshold for capping resource use by a process within a grid environment, comprising: sampling, using a processor, a plurality of actual resource use characteristics, wherein each of said plurality of actual resource use characteristics designates a portion of a total amount of system resources available to a process that are used by said process at a particular time over a sampling period, wherein said total amount of system resources are available in a grid environment; responsive to detecting a conclusion of said sampling period, determining, using the processor, an operation based resource utilization threshold for said process based on a maximum resource use within said plurality of actual resource use characteristics; and storing, using the processor, said operation based resource utilization threshold for access by at least one workload manager that restricts said process to resource use within an execution environment of said grid environment managed by said workload manager up to said operation based resource utilization threshold by calling an application programming interface for said process with a request to store said operation based resource utilization threshold in a file accessible to said workload manager by calling said application programming interface with a request to load said operation based resource utilization threshold, such that said a resource utilization threshold is set for said process based on actual operation of said process.