70824 - [RFE]Have Mozilla act gracefully on low memory situations

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 44352

(SeaMonkey :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Brian 'netdragon' Bober]

When system memory gets low, and part of the code is trying to allocate memory, 
Mozilla should either go in a sort of standby mode where it waits for more 
memory, or exit - freeing up the memory for the system, possibly in conjunction 
with saving state bug 63904. For now, though, I recommend having Mozilla free 
up all unused memory, and give a message "Your system is low on memory, please 
close all un-needed windows. Mozilla will now be unusable until more memory 
becomes available" and then sort of suspend the application until more memory 
becomes available.

This can be tested for the coder by turning down how much virtual memory they 
have and then using a stress app to allocate all of the heap.

Comment 1

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

this is already reported.  Brian please query for the original bug and mark it a
duplicate. Thanks.
hint: that bug uses a similar Summary.

Comment 2

[Brian 'netdragon' Bober]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 44352 ***