kdb q Abort Error

A query used more memory than the maximum memory permitted, as set using the -w kdb command line option.
An error is thrown and the kdb process is stopped.

>q -p 5000 -T 2 -w 128
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q){show "variable needs ",string[8*x%1024]," MB"; a::til x*1024;} each `int$3 xexp 7+til 9
"variable needs 17.0859 MB"
"variable needs 51.2578 MB"
"variable needs 153.773 MB"
-w abort

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