[Tutor] out of memory conditions

[Daniel Yoo]

On Thu, 5 Apr 2001, Scott wrote:

> 
> If you're going to be using a LOT of memory, how do you make sure you
> don't run out?
> 
> I thought this would raise an exception, but it didn't.
> 
> When x got to about 163, I got thrown out of X.  I redid 'startx', and
> everything seemed back to normal, except I couldn't run Agent
> newsreader under Wine.


Hmmm... Strange!  Which version of Python?

Also, if you're running a Linux 2.4 kernel, I believe that under extreme
stress, the Linux kernel will try killing processes to keep the system
from going down.