Image forming apparatus, image formation method, and storage medium

An image formation method for implementing a plurality of functions using storage with a prescribed storage area, the image formation method comprising:

• implementing at least some of the plurality of functions by allocating a part of the prescribed storage area for a plurality of processes and executing the processes;
• predicting an amount of consumed memory in response to generation of a job, the amount of consumed memory being an amount of memory used by the image forming method to process the job, the job being a processing target for the image forming method;
• and
• determining whether or not the amount of consumed memory is allocable to the job in the prescribed storage area, wherein
• the determining includes, when the amount of consumed memory is determined not to be allocable, ending at least one process which is not used to process the job among the processes to make the amount of consumed memory allocable to the job.

A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing an image forming program for controlling an image forming apparatus which includes storage with a prescribed storage area and implements a plurality of functions, wherein

• the image forming program causes the image forming apparatus to function as
• an operating system which implements at least some of the functions by allocating a part of the prescribed storage area for a plurality of processes and executing the processes, and
• a storage area managing section which predicts an amount of consumed memory in response to generation of a job and determines whether or not the amount of consumed memory is allocable to the job in the prescribed storage area, the job being a processing target for the image forming apparatus, the amount of consumed memory being an amount of memory used by the image forming apparatus for processing the job, and
• when determining that the amount of consumed memory is not allocable, the storage area managing section ends at least one process which is not used to process the job among the processes to make the amount of consumed memory allocable to the job.