Control over memory usage

[Spiegel-Leser]

I use yahb to backup results of an indefinite long algorithm. Right now it has 7GB of results in a folder, which are refined again and again and keep growing. As loading / saving needs additional time, I designed my program to carefully keep ~3 GB of the currently used results in memory.

YAHB takes ~800 MB to backup that folder. Most often this results in >4 GB total memory usage, so Windows activates the Auslagerungsdatei. Of course I could tell my program to use less memory, but that would slow it down even more.

Best would be an option to tell YAHB to use a maximum of X MB for operation, like 500 MB in this case.

[asdfjkl]

I think you should install more RAM :-)

In general it is difficult to limit RAM usage, as this is controlled completely by the (C#) virtual machine. It's also difficult to predict when and why RAM is used.

If I have some time, I might do some profiling to check where the RAM is used... it it's during collecting all file path, there might be some fixes by doing different batches; if it's during copying it's gonna be difficult...