Re: is there some per-process-limit on memory in .net processes?

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is there some per-process-limit on memory in .net processes? is there any way to increase it? i keep getting System.OutOfMemoryException when my box has 8 gigs of unused memory.


A 32 bit process can only address 2 GB. Doesn't matter how much memory you have on your system, the limit is the process. . That being said, you probably will only see a max 1.6 GB max allocation (32 bit) due to other factors... and due to memory fragmentation you'll probably not be able to allocate a block larger than what, 1GB or so?

If you want to be able to get over that limitation, you'll need to run it on a 64 bit processor in a 64 bit process. 32 bit processes even on a 64 bit machine still suffer the ame limitation since the process still sees everyting '32 bits'.


Doug must learn to proofread. <g> I *meant* to say 32 bit processes still suffer a similar limitation on x64. (but it's 4 gb not 2)


Not really, on 64 bit Windows the "system portion" is no longer mapped into the process virtual address space, that means that a 32 bit process enjoys a full 2^32 (4GB) users address space. To take advantage of this you'll have to set the LARGEADDRESSAWARE bit in the X86 PE header file. For C# and VB.NET this means compiling with /platform:x86 and run editbin /LARGEADDRESSAWARE on the executable file

Sure. And on some versions of the 32 bit windows, you can also give 3GB virtual address space if you boot with /3GB when the LARGEADDRESSAWARE bit is set in the executable. But to me that can be just a "trick" and depending on the application may or may not be the appropriate thing to do. For a high transaction volume server apps (exchange, msmq, sql, etc), sure, being able to address that extra gig or 2 increases app performance. But if the problem is because you're trying to read an mpeg file thats 5 GB long into memory all at once, well, that's a different story and should be addressed at the design level...

Note that, despite the larger users address space available to 32 bit processes on 64 bit Windows, that the largest CLR object is still limited to ~2GB, allocating larger objects will throw OOM's even when running MSIL or X64 code on 64bit Windows.

However I've always wondered the purpose of the Array.LongLength property with respect to that limitation <g>

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