Afaik the CLR managed heap will not allocate anything bigger than 2 GB and the MemoryStream is backed by a live, contigous, byte[]. Large Object Heap doesn't allocations handle over 2GB, not even on x64.
But to store an entire file in memory just to compute a hash seems pretty low tech. You can compute the hash as you receive the bytes, chunk by chunk. After each IO completion you can hash the received bytes, then submit the write to the file. At the end, you have the hash computed and the file uploaded, huraay.
BTW, If you seek code to manipulate files, steer clear of any sample that contains the words ReadToEnd...
class Program
{
private static AutoResetEvent done = new AutoResetEvent(false);
private static AsyncCallback _callbackReadStream;
private static AsyncCallback _callbackWriteFile;
static void Main(string[] args)
{
try
{
_callbackReadStream = new AsyncCallback(CallbackReadStream);
_callbackWriteFile = new AsyncCallback(CallbackWriteFile);
string url = "http://...";
WebRequest request = WebRequest.Create(url);
request.Method = "GET";
request.BeginGetResponse(new AsyncCallback(
CallbackGetResponse), request);
done.WaitOne();
}
catch (Exception e)
{
Console.Error.WriteLine(e.Message);
}
}
private class State
{
public Stream ReponseStream { get; set; }
public HashAlgorithm Hash { get; set; }
public Stream FileStream { get; set; }
private byte[] _buffer = new byte[16379];
public byte[] Buffer { get { return _buffer; } }
public int ReadBytes { get; set; }
public long FileLength {get;set;}
}
static void CallbackGetResponse(IAsyncResult ar)
{
try
{
WebRequest request = (WebRequest)ar.AsyncState;
WebResponse response = request.EndGetResponse(ar);
State s = new State();
s.ReponseStream = response.GetResponseStream();
s.FileStream = new FileStream("download.out"
, FileMode.Create
, FileAccess.Write
, FileShare.None);
s.Hash = HashAlgorithm.Create("MD5");
s.ReponseStream.BeginRead(
s.Buffer
, 0
, s.Buffer.Length
, _callbackReadStream
, s);
}
catch (Exception e)
{
Console.Error.WriteLine(e.Message);
done.Set();
}
}
private static void CallbackReadStream(IAsyncResult ar)
{
try
{
State s = (State)ar.AsyncState;
s.ReadBytes = s.ReponseStream.EndRead(ar);
s.Hash.ComputeHash(s.Buffer, 0, s.ReadBytes);
s.FileStream.BeginWrite(
s.Buffer
, 0
, s.ReadBytes
, _callbackWriteFile
, s);
}
catch (Exception e)
{
Console.Error.WriteLine(e.Message);
done.Set();
}
}
static private void CallbackWriteFile(IAsyncResult ar)
{
try
{
State s = (State)ar.AsyncState;
s.FileStream.EndWrite(ar);
s.FileLength += s.ReadBytes;
if (0 != s.ReadBytes)
{
s.ReponseStream.BeginRead(
s.Buffer
, 0
, s.Buffer.Length
, _callbackReadStream
, s);
}
else
{
Console.Out.Write("Downloaded {0} bytes. Hash(base64):{1}",
s.FileLength, Convert.ToBase64String(s.Hash.Hash));
done.Set();
}
}
catch (Exception e)
{
Console.Error.WriteLine(e.Message);
done.Set();
}
}
}
MemoryStreamafter you've called Dispose, the data is still there - if you callToArrayon it, you can still get at the data. The array isn't eligible for collection until theMemoryStreamis. – Dioptrics