I just stumbled across an old problem: The maximum size of new allocations cannot be limited in boost::pool. I have a pool that grows to hundreds of megabytes. The pool doubles its allocation size every time it runs out of free space. Because Windows wants to allocate consecutive free space, I get out of memory errors even when my program only uses ~500 mb of main memory. If I could limit the amount of memory to allocate this would not be a problem. This was already discussed here: http://lists.boost.org/Archives/boost/2008/10/143763.php Has anything happened since then? Is boost::pool currently maintained? Or are there alternative memory pool libraries I could use? Thank you! Martin Scheffler