Interruption of job in information processing apparatus by means of acquisition and release of resources

An information processing apparatus, which attends to inputting and outputting of image data, and processes the image data by performing a job that uses a resource, includes a time-division resource allocation unit which performs the job by consecutively performing resource acquisition and release for job subsections into which the job is divided, a one-time resource allocation unit which performs the job without a break from a start to an end thereof by performing resource acquisition and release only once for the job, and a resource control unit which selects one of the time-division resource allocation unit and the one-time resource allocation unit to be applied to the job in response to a type of the job.