calibre-parallel exe runtime error

[Mick McHugh]

On two occasions, I have received a Runtime error message:

The application has requested the Runtime to terminate in an unusual way.

On each occasion, I was attempting to read a dictionary (two different ones) that I had converted from Kindle using the DeDrm plugin. Other books were OK - perhaps it fails with big books such as Dictionaries. This happened on 13 January, after I updated to the latest version (possibly 0.9.15?).

I immediately deleted the files but testing with a large book may recreate the error.

[Kovid Goyal (kovid)]

COnverting large books, including dictionaries works for me. If you want
to convert very large books I suggest two things:

1) Run calibre ona computer with lots of RAM
2) Install the 64 bit version of calibre, so that it can use that RAM

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[Mick McHugh (mickmq)]

I am not convinced by your response. I tried again - this time it did crash with a memory error but at the time Task Manager was repoirting only 53% use of physical memory. These were the details:

calibre, version 0.9.15
ERROR: Unhandled exception: <b>MemoryError</b>:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "site-packages\calibre\gui2\viewer\documentview.py", line 971, in next_page
  File "site-packages\calibre\gui2\viewer\main.py", line 1073, in next_document
  File "site-packages\calibre\gui2\viewer\main.py", line 858, in load_path
  File "site-packages\calibre\gui2\viewer\documentview.py", line 793, in load_path
  File "site-packages\calibre\ebooks\oeb\display\webview.py", line 49, in load_html
MemoryError

[Kovid Goyal (kovid)]

Again,

Install the 64 bit version of calibre, so that it can use that RAM

[Mick McHugh (mickmq)]

Rushing off to buy a new computer is not an option at the moment.