1. A method for recovering orphaned storage, the method comprising: scanning through common memory storage; identifying an area within the common memory storage as a potentially orphaned storage location; determining whether the potentially orphaned storage location should be excluded from being identified as potentially orphaned storage location; and, when the potentially orphaned storage location is not excluded from being identified as a potentially orphaned storage location, releasing the area within the common memory; and, the scanning comprises scanning through a plurality of address space identifiers (ASIDs); and the identifying searches for a task control block (TCB) that is identified as the owner of the subset of the storage that was identified as previously present.