GuardiansOfTheMemory

Guardians of the memory stand between you and very dark and grim times, where life is lost, despair spreads like a disease and basically you have to redo all unsaved work.

Why?

• protection against the danger when working with huge data / objects
• it is a general solution to any source of memory usage overload (e.g python, ImageJ)
• paging can allow to allocate more memory than physically available by saving
  previously allocated data on disc
• however when more memory is actively used that physically available and paging is on
  everything freezes and commonly reset is necessary

What?

• pip install gotm
• python -m gotm.draox - the first protector: crude, not sophisticated but does the work

Where?

• Windows 8.1 (developed, tested)
• Linux (in theory but no one yet dared)

Tests?

Make sure that you save any progress that you made anywhere - if unsuccessful it may cause a freeze.

You can check if it stops our sample offenders, just run draox.py and then run one of them.

Success stories?

• “I’ve loaded big tiff into ImageJ, then I wanted to load the results of its processing. It takes a while so I stopped tracking that.
  After a few minutes I wanted to go back to it but could not find ImageJ anywhere. That’s when I noticed Draox smile at me.
  Thanks for saving me!” - Richard Bubblegum

• “I had to run code 3 times then run it with debugger to notice that it stops because Draox is continuously terminating it!
  Still I was saved every time!” - Bill Kickass