I am using VFP 7 on Win2K Server running an EXE and the Windows Task Manager showed my app using up to 40MB of memory, which is still within the physical realm on that system. However, I want to force it down some.

The app is a Web Connection server running in File based messaging mode, and it shows the process times for every hit to the server. Slower process times on the web connection hits seemed to coorelate with higher memory usage. So, I thought limiting memory via SYS(3050) may help.

I placed an 18MB limit on foreground and background memory:
=SYS(3050,1,18000000)
=SYS(3050,2,18000000)

After running several hits to the server, it still went up to the 25MB - 30MB range (in the Task Manager). I put a DEBUGOUT() to show the SYS(3050,#) while processing each hit to verify my settings had not changed.

Does anyone know why VFP would ignore these settings?