How can a moderately sized memory allocation fail in a 64 bit process on Mac OS X?

Question

I\'m building a photo book layout application. The application frequently decompresses JPEG images into in-memory bitmap buffers. The size of the images is constrained to 10

Answer 1

You may be running out of swap space. Even though you have a swap file and virtual memory, the amount of swap space available is still limited by the space on your hard disk for swap files.