Patent ID: 7231541

Claim:
A method, designated as a “soaker application” and operating in a system using multiple applications, for locating applications that are over-consuming memory resources to the detriment of other applications sharing these memory resources, comprising the steps of: (a) using said soaker application to consume a pre-determined amount of memory at a pre-determined rate and including the steps of: (a1) setting a rate of memory consumption according to a selected choice of low, medium, high, or super high levels of memory consumption in shared memory resources; (a2) selecting a time interval within which said selected rate of memory consumption will operate; (a3) utilizing an MPEG digital stream of data from a movie as a source of data to be consumed by said memory resources; (b) setting a memory threshold value to memory consumption including the step of: (b1) initiating a failover action when said memory threshold is reached so that processing is shifted to another node in said system.