commencing a management application process operable on an operating system running on associated processor;

acquiring a memory area from a primary, hardware-based memory allocation system of an associated data processing system, which memory area is comprised of a plurality of uniformly fixed size memory blocks;

interfacing, via an application program interface, between the management application processes and each of a plurality of concurrently operable processes on the processor in connection with memory needed for each process such that memory allocation is completed via the management application process running above the hardware-based memory allocation system;

receiving a memory request from each of the plurality of processes via the application program interface, each memory request including data representative of a requested memory allocation size associated therewith;

allocating to each of the plurality of processes and corresponding to each received memory request, memory from the plurality of acquired memory blocks, each allocation being defined by a base memory address disposed within the memory area, an offset value corresponding to the base memory address, and a corresponding memory allocation size;

generating allocation data corresponding to an allocation of memory;

communicating allocation data to a non-volatile data storage;

detecting an application termination in at least one of the plurality of processes; and

loading allocation data from the non-volatile data storage after detection of a process failure by the failure detection step.