Patent ID: 8127099

Claim:
A method, on an information processing system, for resource recovery, the method comprising: associating at least one bit with at least one block of memory residing in at least one of a first partition and an unused memory area, wherein the bit denotes a borrow status for the block of memory; setting the bit for resource recovery; detecting a resource recovery event, wherein the resource recovery event is associated with a failing of a second partition; performing a system dump of the second partition to persistent storage, wherein the system dump comprises copying a memory image associated with the second partition to a given disk location; in response to the bit being enabled for resource recovery, borrowing the block of memory for a given duration of time; and performing, in response to the bit being enabled for resource recovery, an initial program load of a new copy of the second partition at a new partition using at least the block of memory that has been borrowed from the one of the first partition and the unused memory area in parallel with copying the memory image associated with the second partition from the second partition to the given disk location.