Methods and mechanisms for proactive memory management

Abstract From the Canadian patent

A proactive, resilient and self-tuning memory management system and method that result in actual and perceived performance improvements in memory management by loading and maintaining data that is likely to be needed into memory before the data is actually needed. The system includes mechanisms directed towards historical memory usage monitoring memory usage analysis, refreshing memory with highly-valued (e.g. highly utilized) pages I/O pre-fetching efficiency, and aggressive disk management. Based on the memory usage information pages are prioritized with relative values and mechanisms work to pre-fetch and/or maintain the more valuable pages in memory. Pages are pre-fetched and maintained …