[Swift-devel] behaviour on out-of-memory

[Ben Clifford]

On Fri, 8 Feb 2008, Mihael Hategan wrote:

> Yep. Hard problem. In general, OOMs are tricky to handle. I was thinking
> of pre-allocating some space to use in such cases for clean shutdown,
> but given the concurrency, this may or may not work properly.

For my purposes, I don't really need anything cleaner than the JVM exiting 
with an error code sometime around the memory running out.

I hacked in a try/catch around karajan's EventWorker.run() which is 
catching enough for me at the moment.

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