Re: WHy jump in this code ?
Peter Duniho wrote:
Daniel Pitts wrote:
Actually, OOM exceptions aren't as useful to catch as they appear at
first glance. You can't really tell if you went a little over the
top, or if some other thread is hogging your memory, or if you went
way over the available memory.
I agree with the latter. But I don't see why that implies the former.
A serious OOM issue will eventually take down the program, without it
being able to do anything about it. But a simple "this single data
structure is just too big to handle" error is still worth recovering
from, as the program remains in a perfectly usable state.
But, what if you use the last drop of the memory, and some other thread
allocates a small object. That *other* thread will get an OOM for no
apparent reason, and may not be able to recover as gracefully. Catching
OOM from a large allocation might seem useful, but you can still
destabilize your application in unexpected ways.
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