How to monitor system resources and prevent a crash?

[Jtorres13]

How to monitor system resources and prevent a crash? Let's say I want to monitor Winword.exe and if it consumes too much memory (random number of RAM, chosen by me), I want to save the document and alert the user Word will be closing in 30 seconds, then actually force Word to close.

Is this doable? I mean doable in the sense that I can actually execute a program that does this? I'm not considering factors like "maybe the user doesn't want to close at that very moment", "why would I want to do this?", etc...

 

[strongm]

Of course it is doable.

Is it easy and straightforward? No. Is there a point to it on a multitasking, paged-memory system? Probably not. But here's an overview

1) Enumerate all the processes your application is using
2) Call GetProcessMemoryInfo (

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms683219.aspx)

for each of those processes
3) Figure out the totals