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Method, system and computer program product for using an instantaneous memory deficit metric to detect and reduce excess paging operations in a computer system

  • US 6,751,718 B1
  • Filed: 03/26/2001
  • Issued: 06/15/2004
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/26/2001
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A method for detecting excessive paging in a computer system, comprising:

  • obtaining memory management parameters from a computer operating system;

    using the memory management parameters to determine a rate of hard faults, FHF, a rate of soft faults, FSF, a number of used pages in memory, NU, and a page writing activity indicator C, where C is set equal to 1 if there is page-writing activity, and is 0 otherwise;

    calculating memory demand {haeck over (N)}O, where

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