Technologies for managing memory on a compute device
AssigneeIntel Corporation
InventorXiaoyong Du
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Abstract
Technologies for managing memory on a compute device are disclosed. The compute device is configured to determine the quality of a user experience of the compute device when a certain combination of applications are running on the compute device and stores an indication of the quality of the user experience that corresponds to that combination of applications. At a later time, such as when a user selects an application to be launched, the compute device may check if the current combination of applications is expected to have an acceptable quality of a user experience. If not, the compute device may kill one or more of the current combination of applications to improve the expected quality of the user experience.
Claims21
A compute device comprising:
- an interface;
- instructions in the compute device;
- and
- programmable circuitry to execute the instructions to:
- determine a quality of a user experience for a combination of applications running on the compute device, the quality of the user experience based on at least one of (a) a memory request test, or (b) a memory use determination;
- perform the memory request test;
- and
- after identifying a low memory condition based on the memory request test not being completed within a threshold period of time, cause an application killer to:
- identify at least one application to kill based on at least one factor;
- and
- kill the at least one application.
At least one storage device or storage disc comprising instructions that, when executed, cause programmable circuitry to at least:
- retrieve, from a database, an indication of a quality of a user experience for a combination of applications running on a compute device, the quality of the user experience based on at least one of (a) a memory request test, or (b) memory usage;
- and
- after identifying a low memory condition based on the at least one of (a) the memory request test, or (b) the memory usage, cause an application killer to:
- identify at least one application to kill based on at least one factor;
- and
- kill the at least one application.
A method comprising:
- determining, by executing an instruction with at least one processor, a quality of a user experience for a combination of applications running on a compute device, the quality of the user experience based on at least one of (a) a memory request test, or (b) memory usage;
- and
- after identifying a low memory condition based on the at least one of (a) the memory request test, or (b) the memory usage, causing, by executing an instruction with the at least one processor, an application killer to:
- identify at least one application to kill based on at least one factor, the at least one factor including at least one of a memory footprint of the at least one application or a recency of use of the at least one application;
- and
- kill the at least one application.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.