My program can allocate suddenly a lot of RAM based on usage. I want to limit the RAM it can take from the system.
I saw here: Limit RAM usage to python program
But it works only for Unix. Any solution for Windows?
A Job object supports limiting the committed memory of a process. In Python, we can implement this via PyWin32 or ctypes.
Note that prior to Windows 8 a process can only be in a single Job. A couple of common cases where this is a concern include the py.exe launcher (the default association for .py files), which runs python.exe in a Job, and the Task Scheduler service, which runs each task in a Job.
import sys
import warnings
import winerror
import win32api
import win32job
g_hjob = None
def create_job(job_name='', breakaway='silent'):
hjob = win32job.CreateJobObject(None, job_name)
if breakaway:
info = win32job.QueryInformationJobObject(hjob,
win32job.JobObjectExtendedLimitInformation)
if breakaway == 'silent':
info['BasicLimitInformation']['LimitFlags'] |= (
win32job.JOB_OBJECT_LIMIT_SILENT_BREAKAWAY_OK)
else:
info['BasicLimitInformation']['LimitFlags'] |= (
win32job.JOB_OBJECT_LIMIT_BREAKAWAY_OK)
win32job.SetInformationJobObject(hjob,
win32job.JobObjectExtendedLimitInformation, info)
return hjob
def assign_job(hjob):
global g_hjob
hprocess = win32api.GetCurrentProcess()
try:
win32job.AssignProcessToJobObject(hjob, hprocess)
g_hjob = hjob
except win32job.error as e:
if (e.winerror != winerror.ERROR_ACCESS_DENIED or
sys.getwindowsversion() >= (6, 2) or
not win32job.IsProcessInJob(hprocess, None)):
raise
warnings.warn('The process is already in a job. Nested jobs are not '
'supported prior to Windows 8.')
def limit_memory(memory_limit):
if g_hjob is None:
return
info = win32job.QueryInformationJobObject(g_hjob,
win32job.JobObjectExtendedLimitInformation)
info['ProcessMemoryLimit'] = memory_limit
info['BasicLimitInformation']['LimitFlags'] |= (
win32job.JOB_OBJECT_LIMIT_PROCESS_MEMORY)
win32job.SetInformationJobObject(g_hjob,
win32job.JobObjectExtendedLimitInformation, info)
def main():
assign_job(create_job())
memory_limit = 100 * 1024 * 1024 # 100 MiB
limit_memory(memory_limit)
try:
bytearray(memory_limit)
except MemoryError:
print('Success: available memory is limited.')
else:
print('Failure: available memory is not limited.')
return 0
if __name__ == '__main__':
sys.exit(main())