EXCEPTION: St9bad_alloc
std::bad_alloc
bitcoin in ProcessMessages()

EXCEPTION: St9bad_alloc
std::bad_alloc
bitcoin in ThreadMessageHandler()

terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::bad_alloc'
what(): std::bad_alloc
Aborted

The only thing I did was to wipe everything clean and start version 0.8.0. It started to download the block chain for a while and when I got back home it was dead. Is there anything I can do to prepare myself so I can gather more information if it happens again? Thinking of crash dumps, logs etc.