Big strings => panic

Faraday (faraday@altair.vv.com)
Fri, 19 Apr 1996 14:31:06 PDT


>Granted; would it then be possible to degrade slightly more gracefully,
>such as kill the huge task, rather than panicking? Malloc fails, kill the
>MOO task, sort of thing. I don't see that a server panic is either
>necessary or desirable or unavoidable in this situation.

How would you detect what caused the exhaustion of resources?

FD.