That sounds very worrying. The fact that this issue occurs shows that they didn't prepare for OOM conditions, and another issue could easily cause a different O

That sounds very worrying. The fact that this issue occurs shows that they didn't prepare for OOM conditions, and another issue could easily cause a different OOM condition they didn't prepare for. It's not inconceivable that there could be an issue which gobbles up an amount of memory you throw at it. It is a tragic irony that the fact that testing is costly may be the very reason this condition was not tested for.