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Regulating the workload of a database system

  • US 7,657,501 B1
  • Filed: 08/10/2004
  • Issued: 02/02/2010
  • Est. Priority Date: 08/10/2004
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for regulating the workload of a database system as it processes one or more requests, the requests being grouped into one or more workload groups, the requests being processed by one or more of a plurality of subsystems within the database system, each subsystem having resources, the system having resources, the subsystem resources and the system resources being allocated across the one or more workload groups, the method including:

  • monitoring, at a subsystem level, the processing of the requests and adjusting the allocation of subsystem resources to workload groups to achieve a subsystem goal for performance associated with the one or more workload groups; and

    monitoring, at a system level, the processing of the requests and adjusting the allocation of system resources to workload groups to achieve a system goal for performance associated with the one or more workload groups.

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