Possible to set a maximum of memory consumption on

Question

I sometimes have scripts which are eating up all the memory. Since I don't want to monitor them all the time or set cpu priority to low manually I am wondering if there is an option to give that specific script a value (maybe in mb) of memory. Does this option exist?

Answer 1

PowerShell doesn't provide any built-in way to control system resources like the memory used by a script.

Windows does provide a way to limit system resources to groups of processes, you can learn more about that here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms684161(v=vs.85).aspx

If your scripts are consuming too much memory, I'd suggest investigating the memory leak. There are many tools that help track memory leaks. Some are low level (e.g. using !dumpheap from SOS in windbg - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb190764(v=vs.110).aspx). Others are pretty smart, letting you take multiple snapshots and show you just the newly allocated objects between the snapshots. You can search for ".Net memory profiler" to get an idea of what's available.