out of memory exception

[Mark Baumeister]

Hi,
I am using a linked list and one of the exceptions I'd like to include in the
add or push() method is in the case that the list gets so large that - run out of memory.
However, since I'm not familiar with such an exception, I'm not sure how I would code it.

Can someone tell me if there is a common or known exception for this?

thanks,
MB

e.g.

[B]public void push(T newItem)  throws StackException [/B]{
  // Adds an item to the top of a stack.
  // Precondition: newItem is the item to be added.
  // Postcondition: If insertion is successful, newItem
  // is on the top of the stack.
  // Exception: Some implementations may throw 
  // StackException when newItem cannot be placed on
  // the stack.
     top = new List(newItem, top);
  } // end push

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[Richard Anderson]

You can't do much once you've got an OutOfMemoryException. The JVM is...out of memory! I would try and think of ways to prevent this in the first place. Have you played around with the min and max heap size? Run your program in a profiler like JProbe and find out what's taking up the most memory.

Hope that helps!

-Rich

[Quang Pham]

You make me thing of a program in loop. Check your program code for looping.