Memory and crashing

[Ivan Smahin]

Hello Steve,

Tuesday, July 3, 2007, 8:44:34 PM, you wrote:

SA> 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.
>>
>>
>>


SA> Should I submit this to Mantis?  

Yes of course.





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