std.zip expand: memory allocation failed

Imperatorn johan_forsberg_86 at hotmail.com
Mon Oct 25 22:38:38 UTC 2021


On Monday, 25 October 2021 at 20:50:40 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer 
wrote:
> On 10/24/21 8:00 AM, Selim Ozel wrote:
>
>> It turns out my computer was literally running out of memory 
>> as the file was getting unzipped. For some reason  to 
>> uncompress a 1-gig file with uncompressed size of 4-gig, Zip 
>> Archive of D-Lang tries to use more than 16 gig of RAM. I 
>> don't know why. Maybe I missed something. I use a Windows 10, 
>> DMD v2.091 with x86_mscoff.
>
> Wait, x86 is 32-bit. Max address space is 4GB. So maybe it was 
> just trying to use 4GB and running out of memory?
>
> -Steve

Good catch, but still, should it use so much memory?


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