Memory and crashing

[Steve Albin]

On Tuesday, July 3, 2007 IvanSmahin at public.kherson.ua (Ivan Smahin) wrote:

>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.
>
>
>


Should I submit this to Mantis?  




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