PaintComponent() and jave.lang.OutOfMemoryError problem

Question

I have a paintComponent() method that in it , I paint the GraphicsContexts with a big BufferedImage
here is the code:
void doPaint(){ //do some painting on the buffer
buffer = new BufferedImage(waveForm.viewPortDim.width,waveForm.viewPortDim.height,
BufferedImage.TYPE_4BYTE_ABGR_PRE);
waveForm.xPanel.paintEcgBuffer(buffer);
public void paintComponent(Graphics g){
//super.paintComponent(g);//??
Graphics2D g2 = (Graphics2D)g;
try{            
g2.drawImage(buffer,0,0,this);
}catch(OutOfMemoryError e){
e.printStackTrace();
System.out.println("error "+e.getMessage());
I use doPaint() to do some painting over the buffer but i get jave.lang.OutOfMemoryError when i try to do
g2.drawImage(buffer,0,0,this);
Is there a limit on the height or width of the GraphicsContexts?
The dimension of the bufeer can be about 1400x2800 or 1400x5500.
What can I do?
Thank you in advance.
Yair.

Answer 1

I don't know the answer to this question, but it may help you out to examine it.
Is it possible that your graphics card is running out of the memory to display this large image?
You may want to just display what the screen is displaying, so clip the rest beforehand, which would lead to a smaller buffered image.