Limiting RAM

[nick]

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I have a need to limit the amount of RAM Windows XP is using for a
particular program. This program uses DAO as a component and it will not
work when there is more than 1000MB of RAM. Any thoughts? I know this is
configurable in Citrix in a registry entry, but wonder if anyone knows a way
to do this in XP? Thanks.
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Nick
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Nick
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Nick wrote:
> I have a need to limit the amount of RAM Windows XP is using for a
> particular program. This program uses DAO as a component and it will not
> work when there is more than 1000MB of RAM. Any thoughts? I know this is
> configurable in Citrix in a registry entry, but wonder if anyone knows a way
> to do this in XP? Thanks.

I have no idea if this will work with your application, but it works for
a DOS application that we run:

c:\applicationdirectory\applicationexecutable -extk 1000000 runit

Where c: is the drive where the application resides,
applicationdirectory is the folder where the application resides (could
be something like c:\program files\applicationdirectory), and
applicationexecutable is the name of the executable file that starts the
application.

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