An automatic resource management service implements a policy to
automatically control resource usage by processes running on a computer.
A policy expresses criteria for identifying process sets, and imposes
allocations and sub-allocations or resource amounts to be used by given
process sets and subsets. Exclusion lists are used in an embodiment of
the invention to exclude processes from management by the management
service. In an embodiment of the invention the resources whose use is
managed are CPU resources, although in further embodiments the managed
resources include memory resources as well.