files of size 250 meg allocates large chunks of memory

Question

I am downloading a 250 meg file thru ftp.
The program keeps on allocating memory before writing any thing out


ftpConnection.TransferBufferSize=24096;// TransferBufferSize
ftpConnection.DownloadFile(LocFilename,RemoteFileName);

But if I transfer as binary there is no issues.

What can I do to prevent it

Answer 1

I'm not entirely sure what you mean by the above post. Is there a problem in ASCII mode? Is it an ASCII file?

Answer 2

Problem is in the ascci mode ... the whole file gts read into the memory
ifi use binary all works well

Answer 3

You might be trying to transfer a binary file in ASCII mode.

We use the ReadLine() method to read a line at a time from ASCII files. I suppose if there are no line terminators in the binary file it might do this.

But why would you want to transfer a binary file in ASCII mode? ASCII is for text files.

Answer 4

thanks.... that could be the issue