>The application we are running is a night job and there are no other applications running simultaneously. This application spawns another instance of FoxPro in between and the first instance continues to process the rest of the code and finally waits for the second instance to terminate before it terminates.
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>Do you think that I can explicitly define these parameters in the .INI file considering the fact that no other apps are running simultaneously?
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>e.g.
>[MEMORY]
>MIN_FOREGROUND = 512000
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>For a server with 2GB RAM, will 500 MB of RAM be too large to be assigned to ForeGround applications?

No, but a server with 2GB of physical RAM may have lots of problems if a Slot1, SlotA or Soxcket370 processor in it; to have a single processor properly control physical RAM >1G, you need a Slot2 (Xeon) family processor on the motherboard; most Slot2 implementations can control 4GB of physical RAM per processor reliably because of a different address line structure and address decng timing.

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>Rather than specify the memory explicitly, would it be better to determine, what is available and then make assignments?
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Almost certainly, and it needs to be adjusted dynamically as other processes and services start and stop.
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>Ria