Abstract: A system for memory management including a tag cache in communication with one or more cache devices in a storage hierarchy is provided. The tag cache includes tags of recently accessed memory blocks, each tag corresponding to one of the memory blocks and each tag including tag contents. The tag contents include a memory block real address and one bit for every memory line in the memory block. The bits are referred to as prefetch bits. Each of the prefetch bits is reset to a non-prefetch status with a selected probability of between zero and one. The tag contents control which memory lines of the corresponding memory block are prefetched into at least one of the cache devices. The tag contents are updated using a selected subset of processor references. The subset is referred to as filtered references. The tag contents are modified probabilistically at selected times or events.

Abstract: A method and system for memory management are provided. The system includes a tag cache in communication with one or more cache devices in a storage hierarchy. The tag cache includes tags of recently accessed memory blocks, each tag corresponding to one of the memory blocks and including tag contents. The tag contents control which memory lines of the corresponding memory block are prefetched into at least one of the cache devices. The tag contents further include a bit to control prefetching of memory lines from a next virtual memory block, the bit referred to as a next virtual memory block bit. The next virtual memory block bit in a preceding memory block in a virtual address space is set to a prefetch status when the preceding memory block tag is in the tag cache.

Abstract: A system for memory management including a tag cache in communication with one or more cache devices in a storage hierarchy. The tag cache includes tags of recently accessed memory blocks where each tag corresponds to one of the pages and each tag includes tag contents. The tag contents control which memory lines of the corresponding memory block are prefetched into at least one of the cache devices. The tag contents are updated using a selected subset of processor references. The subset is referred to as filtered references. The tag contents are modified probabilistically at selected time or events.

Abstract: A system for memory management including a tag controlled buffer in communication with a memory device. The memory device includes a plurality of pages divided into a plurality of individually addressable lines. The tag controlled buffer includes a prefetch buffer including at least one of the individually addressable lines from the memory device. The tag controlled buffer also includes a tag cache in communication with the prefetch buffer. The tag cache includes a plurality of tags, where each tag is associated with one of the pages in the memory device and each tag includes a pointer to at least one of the lines in the prefetch buffer. Access to the lines in the prefetch buffer is controlled by the tag cache.

Abstract: A system and method of detecting and forecasting resource bottlenecks of a computer system. In one aspect, a method comprises the steps of: monitoring with successive measurements a utilization parameter of a system resource; computing a change parameter by comparing the differences between successive measurements of the utilization parameter; comparing the change parameter to a threshold change parameter; and reporting a resource bottleneck if the change parameter exceeds the threshold change parameter.