[Solved] String size limitation

[water]

A question for all of you with more insight information and understanding than me:

According to the docu the max. size of a string is ~2GB. Are there any situations where a memory error shows up with strings much smaller (128MB, 512MB)?

In this (the problem occurred here) we try to understand what happens because we get "Error allocating memory" with different sized strings.

Any information will be creatly appreciated!

Edited January 24, 2012 by water

[Melba23]

water,

I seem to remember a thread a while ago where an "Out of memory" problem was caused because AutoIt needed more memory to do whatever it needed to do to the string - leading to a total memory bill possibly several times that of the actual string itself. Perhaps this is the same thing?

M23

[water]

Melba,

thanks for your reply.

What we do is a simple "FileRead".

PsaltyDS mentioned in this that the problem we encounter might be caused by Windows memory management.

water

Edited January 23, 2012 by water

[Yashied]

The maximum string size equal to the maximum contiguous memory block that is available for your program (by default 2 GB). Since the memory can be defragmented, the maximum size of the memory block is smaller than 2 GB.

[water]

Thanks a lot for the explanation!