https://www.monetdb.org/Documentation/mserver5-man-page makes it look like i should be able to do this, but i have tried a few different things and none of them have worked. in the mserver window, i just want this line to be reduced to 50MB or something very small. # Found 15.913 GiB available main-memory. mserver window: # MonetDB 5 server v11.25.5 "Dec2016-SP1" # Serving database 'mydb', using 8 threads # Compiled for x86_64-pc-winnt/64bit # Found 15.913 GiB available main-memory. # Copyright (c) 1993-July 2008 CWI. # Copyright (c) August 2008-2017 MonetDB B.V., all rights reserved # Visit http://www.monetdb.org/ for further information # Listening for connection requests on mapi:monetdb://127.0.0.1:50001/ # MonetDB/SQL module loaded here's what my database.bat file looks like: @echo off setlocal set MONETDB=C:\Program Files\MonetDB\MonetDB5 set PATH=%MONETDB%\bin;%MONETDB%\lib;%MONETDB%\lib\MonetDB5;%PATH% "%MONETDB%\bin\mserver5.exe" --daemon=yes --set "prefix=%MONETDB%" --set "exec_prefix=%MONETDB%" "--dbpath=C:\Users\damico\AppData\Local\Temp\RtmpgBoQzw\mydb" %* --set mapi_port=50001 if ERRORLEVEL 1 pause endlocal thanks!