# Overuse of memory leads to computer freeze

**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/overuse-of-memory-leads-to-computer-freeze/62671
**Category:** Performance
**Tags:** memory
**Created:** [June 10, 2021, 12:37pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/overuse-of-memory-leads-to-computer-freeze/62671 "2021-06-10T12:37:41Z")
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### Author: ![fgerick](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/fgerick/32/13228_2.png) [@fgerick](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/fgerick)
#### Post date: [June 10, 2021, 12:50pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/overuse-of-memory-leads-to-computer-freeze/62671/2 "2021-06-10T12:50:43Z")

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I asked a similar question a while ago and there’s a small check you could put into your code, for debugging purposes: [OutOfMemoryError() instead of allocating too much resources in the job scheduler](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/outofmemoryerror-instead-of-allocating-too-much-resources-in-the-job-scheduler/45575)

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