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List:       kde-pim
Subject:    Re: [Kde-pim] out of memory
From:       André_Wöbbeking <Woebbeking () onlinehome ! de>
Date:       2005-05-26 16:14:27
Message-ID: 200505261814.27274.Woebbeking () onlinehome ! de
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On Thursday 26 May 2005 18:05, Reinhold Kainhofer wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, 26. Mai 2005 18:02 schrieb André Wöbbeking:

> > so it's better a application or the whole system crashes instead of
> > an error dialog "Sorry, too large document..."?
>
> If you have to wait an hour for that error dialog to come up, it
> doesn't really matter... You'll have killed X meanwhile.

Sure, but this depends on:

- how much swap do you use (nowadays I know that it's not the best idea 
to have huge amounts of swap for desktop machines)

- how the app allocates the memory: all at once or small chunk by small 
chunk. In the first case you don't have to wait long
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