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December 03, 2008  
Subject: Can I set maximum memoery and processor use?
Group: microsoft.public.windows.vista.general
Date: 9/2/2008 5:13:34 PM
From: process [Email Address Protection]

I do a lot of programming and handle large datasets and it really
pisses me off when a program uses up all the memory or processor.

It cripples the computer and makes it useless for minutes on and
sometimes I have to shut it down.

Is there a wat to set a maximum limit on memory and processor use?

And the task manager is pretty dumb. The times I need to use it it
doesn=E4t respond either. Shouldn't it override everything and always be
callable? Isn't that kind of the point?

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Subject: Re: Can I set maximum memoery and processor use?
Group: microsoft.public.windows.vista.general
Date: 9/3/2008 6:29:16 AM
From: "Mike Brannigan" [Email Address Protection]


No - if you need precise control over Memory and CPU usage you will need to
use Windows System Resource Manager - a capability of Windows Server 2008 or
a download for Windows Server 2003.
The client operating systems such as Vista do not have such a feature - you
can however alter a processes priority and affinity (which CPU cores it runs
on) from within Task Manager - This may be sufficient for your needs (if you
have a multi core system).

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Mike Brannigan


"process" <circularfunc@gmail.com> wrote in message
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I do a lot of programming and handle large datasets and it really
pisses me off when a program uses up all the memory or processor.

It cripples the computer and makes it useless for minutes on and
sometimes I have to shut it down.

Is there a wat to set a maximum limit on memory and processor use?

And the task manager is pretty dumb. The times I need to use it it
doesn�t respond either. Shouldn't it override everything and always be
callable? Isn't that kind of the point?


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