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

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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.

sparkes
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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.

staffan
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I've heard a few good rumors about Prime95.

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

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

dpp
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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.

Ishmaeel
Nice utility, but shame it is commercial.
Konrad