Patent ID: 7831561

Claim:
A computer-implemented method of managing a first area on a disk in a computer, the method comprising: automatically creating in memory information to be used in recovery of a database, from a process crash of a database management system during execution in the computer; in response to automatic creation of said information, automatically checking if creation of a new file to contain said information, in the first area will cause a size of the first area to exceed a predetermined limit on the size; wherein said predetermined limit is identified in a first parameter; and wherein the first area is expressly designated in a second parameter to hold a plurality of files automatically created by the database management system, for use in said recovery from the process crash; automatically deleting, from the first area, at least one file in the plurality of files, when a result of said checking is true; automatically creating the new file in the first area, when the first area is sufficiently small to accommodate the new file without the size exceeding the predetermined limit; and automatically adding a name of the new file to a table in the database; wherein the predetermined limit is associated with the first area, and the computer comprises additional space.