Immediately stop MATLAB if RAM usage exceeds a specified amount. Is there a way?

Question

Title says it all.

Basically, I am getting tired of having to reset my comp every time I mistakenly make MATLAB use a large amount of RAM for a simulation with many par

Answer 1

You can set virtual memory quota for a process group. On Windows use a Job object. On *nix use ulimit. This works with any process, not just MatLab.

See

• Set Windows process (or user) memory limit
• This answer shows it for Linux