Resolution of out of memory conditions for shared memory in a print controller

摘要

Methods and systems herein provide for efficiently resolving how a rasterizer 108 responds to out of memory conditions when attempting to write raster data to a solid state memory 110. In one embodiment, a print controller 106 determines that the solid state memory 110 is no longer available for storing raster data. The print controller determines that a process is utilizing the shared memory to complete an operation, where completing the operation frees up a portion of the solid state memory 110. The print controller suspends the rasterizer from writing raster data to a hard disk 114, and waits for the process to complete the operation. The print controller 106 then instructs the rasterizer 108 to resume writing raster data to the solid state memory 110.