Memory and crashing

[Ivan Smahin]

Hello Steve,

Tuesday, July 3, 2007, 4:37:29 PM, you wrote:


SA> Can you please clarify your answer.  Are you saying that a crash
SA> on out of memory is something that can be expected in situations
SA> like this?

Generally  speaking,  "out  of  memory"  should  be  considered in any
application.

SA> Is it reasonable for me to conclude that I should tell
SA> this user to get more memory because there is nothing I can do?

We will try to find out and fix this problem.
Probably     some   our algorithm uses RAM for any data size - so it's
always  limited.  I need to play with you query to get into such crash
first.


SA> Why wouldn't Valentina throw an exception rather than crash?
Certainly, it should be no crash.

SA> I can live with not having an exception. I think 1GB of memory is
SA> rather small for any computer, especially someone using database
SA> apps.  But I would like to know if this is a reasonable assumption.

Sometimes  another  user will get into the same situation with just bigger
DB.  So  we need to fix it anyway. As I told before - it could be some
operation  which uses RAM only for any data but in case of huge data we
get  out  of memory. Exception or crash - is no matter here.



-- 
Best regards,
Ivan Smahin 
Senior Software Engineer
Paradigma Software, Inc
Valentina - The Ultra-Fast Database
http://www.valentina-db.com