java can system out result in out of memory issues

Question

This is a theoretical question .

Can a flood of system out on java applet , cause applet to go out of memory ?

If yes what would be an easy solution to remove multiple sysout spanning across multiple files ?

Answer 1

A single System.out.println(x) can cause an out of memory error, if x.toString() uses too much memory.

Can a flood of system out on java applet , cause applet to go out of memory ?

It is size of the resulting String which matters, not the number. More messages will be slower, but make no difference to the amount of free memory after a Full GC and that is what counts.