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Out of memory at line: 56

Published on 28th May 2009 Estimated Reading Time: 1 minute

This is an error that I have started to see a lot in the last few weeks. First, it was with Piwik and latterly with WordPress.com Stats. For the record, I have never seen it on up-to-date systems but always with IE6 and at page unloading time. The CPU usage hits 100% before the error is produced, which had me blaming JavaScript in error. However, it isn't the cause of all ills.

In fact, the cause seems to be a bug in a certain release of Adobe Flash 9, but I reckon that the inclusion of certain features in a Flash movie are needed to trigger it too. While I don't have the exact details of this, WordPress.com Stats worked without fault until a recent update, so that is what is making me reach the conclusion that I have. That observation also makes me wonder whether we are coming to a point where Flash compatibility is something that needs to be factored into the use of the said technology in a website or web application. Updating Flash will solve the problem on the client, but it might be better if it wasn't triggered on the server side either.

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