What tools do you use to stress test programs on Windows XP?

Question

I would like to be able to control the available memory and CPU resources. What kind of tools do you use to do this?

Answer 1

My girlfriend :)

EDIT: So how do I report a serious failure of humour on the beta? There really are some plonkers about downmodding shit for the sake of it.

Answer 2

Hypervisors such as VMWare will let you constrain the memory available to the OS. Advanced versions should let you constrain the CPU resources as well.

Answer 3

I've heard a few good rumors about Prime95.

Answer 4

MSDN Magazine has the code for a tool called EatMem here:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc163613.aspx

Answer 5

Not exactly a stress test, but I once tried out NetLimiter to seemulate how my networking code performed on a crappy network without leaving the comfort of 127.0.0.1.