X Error of failed request: BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation) while running tkinter

I encountered the following error message while running a python script that I am working on. It occurred while tkinter was loading ~1800 thumbnail images, each being 200x200 pixels large, into individual ttk.Checkkbuttons. It did not finish this process and the program crashed with this error message.

X Error of failed request: BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation) Major opcode of failed request: 53 (X_CreatePixmap) Serial number of failed request: 140089 Current serial number in output stream: 140097 

The system that I ran this python tkinter script has a large RAM capacity. Before the program crashed, the RAM utilisation was only around 10%.

I don't understand this error message. Can you please explain what is causing this error?, Is this error caused by a limitation of the tkinter package or of the system's hardware (e.g. RAM, GPU, ... etc)? Anyway to overcome this?

I found a similar question but it was posted 9 years ago. I do not know if it is still relevant. Appreciate your assistance.

Update:

Following what was tried by the similar question, I added:

Option "VideoRam" "65536" Option "CacheLines" "1980" 

into the Section "Device" segment of /etc/X11/xorg.conf , i.e it is now:

Section "Device" Identifier "Device0" Driver "nvidia" VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation" Option "VideoRam" "65536" Option "CacheLines" "1980" EndSection 

The error changed to:

X Error of failed request: BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation) Major opcode of failed request: 53 (X_CreatePixmap) Serial number of failed request: 128544 Current serial number in output stream: 128552 

The Current serial number in output stream: 140097 dropped to 128552.

The explanation of XCreatePixmap is given here. It states that BadAlloc occurs when the server failed to allocate the requested source or server memory.

I tried to create a test code to simulate the error. Although it failed to simulate the X BadAlloc error, it provides a simplified view of the scenario when the error occurred in my code. Nonetheless, I did learn that the max grid rows or columns allowed by tkinter is < 10000 because it will return _tkinter.TclError: row out of bounds. So if my original code is hitting the error when the quantity value used is 1800, is not related to _tkinter.TclError: row out of bounds. I wonder if my error is related to one of the thumbnails supplied to my original code.

Test code:

import tkinter as tk import tkinter.ttk as ttk from PIL import Image, ImageTk class App(ttk.Frame): def __init__(self, parent, file, quantity): super().__init__(parent) self.parent = parent self.quantity = quantity self.image = ImageTk.PhotoImage(Image.open(file)) self.checkbuttons = [] self.checkvalues = [] self.create_widgets() def create_widgets(self): for i in range(self.quantity): self.checkvalues.append(tk.BooleanVar()) self.checkbuttons.append( ttk.Checkbutton(self, image=self.image, variable= self.checkvalues[-1]) ) self.checkbuttons[-1].grid(row=i, column=0) if __name__ == "__main__": root = tk.Tk() app = App(root, 'thumbnail.jpg', 9000) app.grid(row=0, column=0) root.columnconfigure(0, weight=1) root.rowconfigure(0, weight=1) root.mainloop()