Re: [PD] big files with textfile

2007-10-29 Thread ilya .d
you might make the file smaller by using ascii encoding. is that file ascii or unicode? On Sat, Oct 27, 2007 at 02:22:08PM -0400, marius schebella wrote: Hi, textfile can handle bigger files than msgfile, but there seems to be a limit, too. I tried to open a 250MB file, and Pd crashed.

[PD] big files with textfile

2007-10-27 Thread marius schebella
Hi, textfile can handle bigger files than msgfile, but there seems to be a limit, too. I tried to open a 250MB file, and Pd crashed. marius. ___ PD-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -

Re: [PD] big files with textfile

2007-10-27 Thread Mathieu Bouchard
On Sat, 27 Oct 2007, marius schebella wrote: textfile can handle bigger files than msgfile, but there seems to be a limit, too. I tried to open a 250MB file, and Pd crashed. marius. If you measure bytes using an int32, the limit is 2GB, but if you measure it in bits, the limit is 256MB.

Re: [PD] big files with textfile

2007-10-27 Thread marius schebella
I tried something different, which also did not work: split the files in three parts, each around 100MB and load them to 3 separate textfiles. when I try to load the second file, I get an error saying pd: resizebytes() failed -- out of memory if I try to load the 3rd file after that, my system

Re: [PD] big files with textfile

2007-10-27 Thread Mathieu Bouchard
On Sat, 27 Oct 2007, marius schebella wrote: I tried something different, which also did not work: split the files in three parts, each around 100MB and load them to 3 separate textfiles. when I try to load the second file, I get an error saying pd: resizebytes() failed -- out of memory if I

Re: [PD] big files with textfile

2007-10-27 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
On Oct 27, 2007, at 2:44 PM, Mathieu Bouchard wrote: On Sat, 27 Oct 2007, marius schebella wrote: textfile can handle bigger files than msgfile, but there seems to be a limit, too. I tried to open a 250MB file, and Pd crashed. marius. If you measure bytes using an int32, the limit is

Re: [PD] big files with textfile

2007-10-27 Thread Mathieu Bouchard
On Sat, 27 Oct 2007, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: On Oct 27, 2007, at 2:44 PM, Mathieu Bouchard wrote: When crossing the limit, the numbers become negative, and trying to allocate a negative amount causes the allocator to either abort the process or return NULL or corrupt memory... If this is