How to create a low-memory conditions for Testing your Software Application

All this was shared by one of my team-mate for performance testing where we want to test our software performance at different memory levels. Here are the exact details:

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Using the boocfg command, you can restrict the amount of physical memory available to windows. So typing the following command will reduce the memory available to Windows by 768 MB. After this, on a machine with 1GB RAM only 256 MB will be available to Windows, 768 MB
will not be available:

bootcfg /raw "/burnmemory=768" /A /ID 1

After this reboot the system and Windows will reboot with only 256 MB
of memory available to it.

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To remove this entry, the following steps should be performed:

1. Go to Control Panel
2. Open System dialog
3. Open Advanced Tab on System Dialog
4. In Startup and Recovery Section, click Settings button
5. the Edit button in System Startup section
6. Boot.ini opens in notepad, delete the "/burnmemory=768" entry
7. Reboot the system

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