application to control the allocation of memory resources?

[Sarah Clarke]

Hi, would anyone know if there is a program to allocate memory resources to
applications in XP Pro? e.g. allocate 20% to app1, 30% to app2, the rest to
all other apps. That would be nice to have. I think the mac has this if i
recall.

Thanks!
Sarah

 

[Guest]

I don't think that recent Mac OS versions have
this "feature" but some developer toolkits have ways of
starving the app that you're developing. One easy way to
do it yourself is to write your own alloc that starts
returning errors at some random point.

From an and-user perspective, giving an app too much
memory is a waste and giving it too little usually makes
it crash so it's not much of an end-user "feature".

 

[Rock]

Hi, would anyone know if there is a program to allocate memory resources to
applications in XP Pro? e.g. allocate 20% to app1, 30% to app2, the rest to
all other apps. That would be nice to have. I think the mac has this if i
recall.

Thanks!
Sarah

There really is no reason to have this. XP manages memory dynamically
using the page file and all available ram.