[Tutor] out of memory conditions

[Scott]

If you're going to be using a LOT of memory, how do you make sure you
don't run out?

I did this as an experiment, in X (Gnome):

	x =3D 0
	y =3D []
	while 1:
		y.append(' ' * 1000000)
		x =3D x + 1
		print x


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.

If you're going to be a memory-hog, do you just have to keep up with
it yourself?