You may want to take a look at Job Object and cook this limitation right inside the application you run into the batch script
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms684161(v=vs.85).aspx example C++ #include <Windows.h> #define BYTES_PER_GIGABYTE ((size_t)1073741824); ... JOBOBJECT_EXTENDED_LIMIT_INFORMATION info; info.ProcessMemoryLimit = mem_limit_gb * BYTES_PER_GIGABYTE; ... This way you application will end right away if it reach that limits. It's always a good idea to make this code for any platform not just Windows For Linux you can go ulimit way: http://coldattic.info/shvedsky/pro/blogs/a-foo-walks-into-a-bar/posts/40 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Jenkins Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to jenkinsci-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-users/0b8c1175-5d70-41c1-934c-7d73cb01fc3d%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.