Patent ID: 6851030

Claim:
A system connected to agents and to associative resources, said system comprising: a first controller associated with said associative resource; a directory associated with said agents; and a resource management controller associated with said directory, wherein said resource management control is adapted to allocate a distribution of said associative resources into partitions, wherein each of said partitions is associated with at least one of said agents; wherein said resource management control includes: a replacement controller associated with said first controller; and a counter associated with said replacement controller and being adapted to record a usage history for each of said partitions, wherein said replacement controller is adapted to reallocate said distribution of said associative resources within each of said partitions as a function of said usage history, and a threshold register for each of said partitions for storing a threshold, wherein a predetermined minimum allocation of said associative resources is maintained in each of said partitions that have a usage history above said threshold.