BIND 10 #1762: loading huge zone crashes all

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#1762: loading huge zone crashes all
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                   Reporter:  jreed  |                 Owner:
                       Type:         |                Status:  new
  defect                             |             Milestone:  New Tasks
                   Priority:         |            Resolution:
  medium                             |             Sensitive:  0
                  Component:         |           Sub-Project:  DNS
  Unclassified                       |  Estimated Difficulty:  0
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            Defect Severity:  N/A    |
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Comment (by jinmei):

 Replying to [comment:1 jreed]:

 > We should have the components recognize when they can't allocate memory
 and then shutdown nicely versus having confusing backtraces.

 I agree this is the desired behavior, but I'm not sure if it's
 feasible in a python program.  Even handling a memory allocation
 failure may require some more memory and there may be no realistic
 exit than a crash.

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Ticket URL: <http://bind10.isc.org/ticket/1762#comment:2>
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