Re: Limit the memory for a child process

or better still maybe even VirtualProtectEx...

"Lenard Gunda" <arthur.darkholme@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Hi
>
> I am writing a system that needs to start other applications, and needs to
> evaluate those applications. However, I would like to be able to restrict
> the amount of memory these child processes can consume.
>
> What I need is: before or after the process is created, I would like to
> set a memory limit (like 16Mb, 64Mb, etc) on the child process. The child
> process should not be able to consume (allocate) more memory, be it real
> or virtual, than this limit.
>
> Is this possible in any way?
>
> Thank you
>
> -Lenard
>


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