Comment 10 for bug 717944

I can now confirm that what I saw in comment #3 is not related to this thread. My error was due to an image being in the wrong format. It also caused bug 779563. I will file e separate ticket for that. Apology for the thread hijack.

Agree that manually limiting the number of cores should not be necessary. The problem will affect an increasing number of users in the future.

The solution is some logic before spawning the thread. Spawn it only if enough memory can be allocated.

Question: memory = physical RAM? or memory = available memory including (slow) swap?