blender crashes when I use a 4096 X 4096 texture

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Blender 2.6 crashes when I try to use a 4096 X 4096 image in the UV editor.
Is it normal?
Thanks in advance

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More info might be helpful; your system specs, and what version of blender.

Not normal as far as know.

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I use Ubuntu, 64 bit, ram 7,5 GiB and the last version of Blender