RAM Limitations

My app will be receiving about 50 to 75 KB of characters and storing them in a byte array. Will the standard PPC have enough RAM to hold all of this? I am concerned because there are a lot of programs running in the background that use RAM too. Has anyone kept this much data in memory? Thanks for the help.

Michael
Sat Jun 19 04:46:19 CDT 2004

There are no guarantees, but generally this one should be a piece of cake.
Most processes are system processes and execute in place (the code isn't
loaded into RAM). They do use RAM for data/stack/etc, but nowhere near
32MB. And I think 32MB RAM is minimum on Pocket PCs.
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Entrek Software, Inc.
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"Jonathan" <Jonathan@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> My app will be receiving about 50 to 75 KB of characters and storing them
in a byte array. Will the standard PPC have enough RAM to hold all of this?
I am concerned because there are a lot of programs running in the background
that use RAM too. Has anyone kept this much data in memory? Thanks for the
help.

Bruce
Sat Jun 19 10:24:43 CDT 2004

Right, 32MB has been the minimum since PPC 2002 at least. But, *ANY and
ALL* dynamic allocations must be wrapped with error handling to handle the
case where the allocation may fail.

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Bruce Eitman (eMVP)
Senior Engineer

r_z_aret
Mon Jun 21 15:26:01 CDT 2004

On Sat, 19 Jun 2004 00:10:01 -0700, "Jonathan"
<Jonathan@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>My app will be receiving about 50 to 75 KB of characters and storing them in a byte array. Will the standard PPC have enough RAM to hold all of this? I am concerned because there are a lot of programs running in the background that use RAM too. Has anyone kept this much data in memory? Thanks for the help.

My app normally runs as the only app. One set of users pull in a file
with 45K lines, each of which has 40-80 characters. I need a few
minutes to digest it all, but it fits, even in an older device with 32
MBytes RAM.

So 50-75 KB of data should be no problem - unless the _other_ apps hog
lots of memory.

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