Full-Page Heap & Normal Page Heap

Normal Page Heap

Normal page heap can be used for the testing of large-scale processes without the high memory consumption that full-page heap requires. However, normal page heap delays detection until blocks are freed, thus making failures more difficult to debug.

In general, use normal page heap for initial large-scale processes testing. Then, if problems are detected, enable full-page heap for a restricted class of allocations in those processes.

Normal page heap can be safely enabled system-wide for all processes. This is very useful on test benches that perform general system validation, rather than component focused testing. Normal page heap can also be enabled for a single process.

Interested Link:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/264471

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/286470