How can I avoid "Your system is running low on virtual memory" pop-up?

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Published on 2011-11-29T10:23:11Z Indexed on 2012/03/26 17:29 UTC
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Our application sometimes uses a lot of memory, and this is expected. But when we test it under high load on Windows XP, we usually get the very annoying "Your system is running low on virtual memory" popup, and this prevents our automated, unattended, tests to run through...

Is it possible to prevent this popup to appear, and just have the allocation fail? The app will handle it gracefully, and tests will go on...

We are using Windows XP, but if a solution only exists on later versions, I'd be happy to know anyway.

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