Patent ID: 7827321

Claim:
A computer program product to facilitate managing a collection of data within a processing environment, the computer program product comprising: a non-transitory storage medium readable by a processing circuit and storing instructions for execution by the processing circuit for performing a method comprising: storing in a data block of a buffer data relating to execution of one or more tasks of the processing environment, wherein the storing is performed at a plurality of specified intervals, in which a plurality of stores to the data block are performed; attempting another store of data to the data block for another specified interval, wherein it is determined that the data block has insufficient space for the another store; determining whether an alert indicator is set for the data block, in response to the determining that the data block has insufficient space; indicating an interrupt is to be performed at a specified time, in response to the determining indicating the alert indicator is set; and storing the data of the another specified interval in another data block of the buffer.