Storage manager which sets the size of an initial-free area assigned to a requesting application according to statistical data

摘要

A storage manager located between a plurality of requesting applications and a memory shared between the applications, has: a receiving unit for receiving a present memory access request from a first of said plurality of requesting applications; an accessing unit for accessing statistical data, the data based on collected values of sizes of initial free areas from prior memory access requests from the first requesting application; and a setting unit for setting a value of an initial free area for use by the present memory access request based on the accessed statistical data.