Patent ID: 8266479

Claim:
A method, comprising the computer-implemented steps of: a plurality of processes executing on a node, wherein each process of said plurality of processes writes to one or more progress logs operation completion information that specifies operation types for said each process, and for each operation type, information about how often each operation type was performed in the past; a counter-part process monitoring the one or more progress logs; the counter-part process determining, based on the operation completion information in the one or more progress logs, whether a particular process of said plurality of processes is running at a normal level of activity, wherein the counter-part process is different than the particular process; and in response to determining, based on the operation completion information in the one or more progress logs, that the particular process is not running at a normal level of activity, the counter-part process determining whether the particular process is restorable to be running at the normal level of activity.