# What would happen to a job if its memory usage exceeds its requested size?

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**Post date:** [April 27, 2020, 1:33am UTC](https://community.openpbs.org/t/what-would-happen-to-a-job-if-its-memory-usage-exceeds-its-requested-size/2099/3 "2020-04-27T01:33:38Z")

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> [@adarsh](#):
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> $restrict mem

as of which version, has this function been added?  
which part of pbspro 19.2.3 big book has mentioned this function?

thanks,

Sue

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