Facilitating management of resources by tracking connection usage of the resources

• US 20050267958A1
• Filed: 04/28/2004
• Published: 12/01/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 04/28/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Parker, David P. S., Gambino, Mark R.
• Application Number:
  US10/833,741
• Publication Number:
  US 20050267958A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/223
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/01 Protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/16 Implementation or adaptation of Internet protocol [IP], of transmission control protocol [TCP] or of user datagram protocol [UDP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/161 Implementation details of TCP/IP or UDP/IP stack architecture; Specification of modified or new header fields
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/163 In-band adaptation of TCP data exchange; In-band control procedures

Abstract

The amount of resources utilized by one or more connections of a communications environment is obtained. A determination is then made as to whether one or more of the connections is using a predominant amount of the resources. If a particular connection is using more of the resources than desired, then action is taken with respect to that connection.

Claims

1. A method of facilitating management of resources of communications environments, said method comprising:

identifying one or more connections of a communications environment; and

determining for at least one connection of the one or more connections an amount of one or more resources being utilized by the at least one connection.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein said at least one connection comprises at least one active socket connection.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

determining whether a connection of the at least one connection is utilizing a dominant amount of one or more resources; and

taking action in response to the determining indicating that the connection is utilizing the dominant amount.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein said taking action is targeted at the connection utilizing the dominant amount and not at one or more other connections of the communications environment.

5. The method of claim 3, wherein utilizing the dominant amount of one or more resources is unacceptable, and the taking action comprises terminating the connection utilizing the dominant amount.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the determining comprises tracking usage of the one or more resources by the at least one connection as the one or more resources are used.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the tracked usage is maintained in a stack of the communications environment, said stack being based on a communications protocol of the communications environment.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein said determining is in response to a request associated with an amount of resources being utilized.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the one or more resources comprises at least one of printer buffers, input buffers, output buffers and memory blocks.

10. A system of facilitating management of resources of communications environments, said system comprising:

means for identifying one or more connections of a communications environment; and

means for determining for at least one connection of the one or more connections an amount of one or more resources being utilized by the at least one connection.

11. The system of claim 10, wherein said at least one connection comprises at least one active socket connection.

12. The system of claim 10, further comprising:

means for determining whether a connection of the at least one connection is utilizing a dominant amount of one or more resources; and

means for taking action in response to the determining indicating that the connection is utilizing the dominant amount.

13. The system of claim 12, wherein the taking action is targeted at the connection utilizing the dominant amount and not at one or more other connections of the communications environment.

14. The system of claim 12, wherein utilizing the dominant amount of one or more resources is unacceptable, and the means for taking action comprises means for terminating the connection utilizing the dominant amount.

15. The system of claim 10, wherein the means for determining comprises means for tracking usage of the one or more resources by the at least one connection as the one or more resources are used.

16. The system of claim 15, wherein the tracked usage is maintained in a stack of the communications environment, said stack being based on a communications protocol of the communications environment.

17. The system of claim 10, wherein said means for determining is in response to a request associated with an amount of resources being utilized.

18. The system of claim 10, wherein the one or more resources comprises at least one of printer buffers, input buffers, output buffers and memory blocks.

19. A system of facilitating management of resources of communications environments, said system comprising:

one or more connections of a communications environment; and

a node to determine for at least one connection of the one or more connections an amount of one or more resources being utilized by the at least one connection.

20. An article of manufacture comprising:

at least one computer usable medium having computer readable program code logic to facilitate management of resources of communications environments, the computer readable program code logic comprising;

identify logic to identify one or more connections of a communications environment; and

determine logic to determine for at least one connection of the one or more connections an amount of one or more resources being utilized by the at least one connection.

21. The article of manufacture of claim 20, wherein said at least one connection comprises at least one active socket connection.

22. The article of manufacture of claim 20, further comprising:

determine logic to determine whether a connection of the at least one connection is utilizing a dominant amount of one or more resources; and

action logic to take action in response to the determining indicating that the connection is utilizing the dominant amount.

23. The article of manufacture of claim 22, wherein the taking action is targeted at the connection utilizing the dominant amount and not at one or more other connections of the communications environment.

24. The article of manufacture of claim 22, wherein utilizing the dominant amount of one or more resources is unacceptable, and the action logic comprises terminate logic to terminate the connection utilizing the dominant amount.

25. The article of manufacture of claim 20, wherein the determine logic comprises track logic to track usage of the one or more resources by the at least one connection as the one or more resources are used.

26. The article of manufacture of claim 25, wherein the tracked usage is maintained in a stack of the communications environment, said stack being based on a communications protocol of the communications environment.

27. The article of manufacture of claim 20, wherein the determining is in response to a request associated with an amount of resources being utilized.

28. The article of manufacture of claim 20, wherein the one or more resources comprises at least one of printer buffers, input buffers, output buffers and memory blocks.