Memory Heavy PostScript Page

Hi, Rubu -

Are you trying to stress memory to test the printer's memory management?

Assuming your goal is purely to consume memory, with no other purpose, you could gimmick up a set of arrays of strings:

     /array1     [

          1000 { 64000 string } repeat

     ] def

     /array2     [

          1000 { 64000 string } repeat

     ] def

Each of the arrays above consumes 64 megabytes of VM; create enough of them and you'll eventually provoke memory issues of some sort or other. By the way, the above code snippet will fail on a Level 1 printer, because it depends on the Operand Stack being able to resize itself.

You could also do something with ReusableStreamDecode, if you have a Level 3 printer:

     currentfile /ReusableStreamDecode filter

     ABCDEFGHIJK...

     .... The "filter" invocation should be followed in the stream by an

     ... arbitrary amount of arbitrary data.

     ... gigabytes of it, if you want...

Or am I misunderstanding what you're trying to do?

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John Deubert

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