Why do apps crash?

Question

What happens when an app crashes? Is it just an unhandled error, or is it something else?

Answer 1

It could be an uncaught exception, an infinite loop, stack overflow, out of memory and so on. The list goes on.

Answer 2

Thomas
Many requests = Many responses = large usage of memory = exhaustion of usable RAM = Crash

Answer 3

blackwinter I know too many requests can cause it to crash, but why does it do that? (This might get into deeper cpu science, so I dont know how many people can help).

Answer 4

Ore Ok that makes sense.