[IMAGING-379] Generic solution for bounding memory use

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Component/s: imaging.*
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Arnout Engelen
• Created: 26/Sep/24 14:38
• Updated: 08/Oct/24 08:18

Description

Processing images can take considerable amounts memory, and running out of memory can impact the entire application. It would be great to have a mechanism to make sure image processing remains within 'reasonable' bounds, and fail gracefully when it exceeds them. Of course what is 'reasonable' is application-dependent.

This issue exists to track the ideas and experiments around implementing such a mechanism, which will likely have impact on various APIs. The 'Allocator' API on the master branch is the current work towards this goal.

Potentially interesting testcases for this infrastructure include:

• https://oss-fuzz.com/testcase?key=4885302936469504
• https://lists.apache.org/thread/r4slmykftt190rypj4nzql7688q0fjjv