Re: Stack overflow using PdfWriter

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gylfi Ingvason [mailto:Gylfi.Ingvason@...]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 23, 2009 4:25 PM
> To: 'Post all your questions about iTextSharp here'
> Subject: Re: [itextsharp-questions] Stack overflow using PdfWriter
>
> Thank you guys.
>  
> The job runs to completion with 8 MB of stack using
> PdfSmarCopy. It still dies with 16 MB using PdfWriter. I've
> now increased the stack to 80 MB and the job is still cooking.
>  
> I was aware of the need to bump the stack for large
> operations, but when you go beyond 20 MB of stack space when
> processing 200 MB of data, then, in my opinion, something is
> not right. Keeping a tree balanced should not require that
> much stack. For my job, we're talking roughly 35,000 pages,
> which is quite a bit, but not astronomical by any standards.
> I may experiment with increasing the branch size from 10 to a
> 100 and see if that makes a difference, but to me, this
> sounds like a bug, and if fixed, it will likely also increase
> processing speed dramatically for large files.
>  
> Gylfi
>  
> ________________________________
>
> From: Adrian Rotaru [mailto:adrian.rotaru@...]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 23, 2009 3:47 AM
> To: Post all your questions about iTextSharp here
> Subject: Re: [itextsharp-questions] Stack overflow using PdfWriter
>
>
> I also had to increase the stack size to make it work..
>  
> Adrian
>  
>  
>  
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Fabrizio Accatino <mailto:fhtino@...>  
> To: Gylfi.Ingvason@... ; Post all your
> questions about iTextSharp here
> <mailto:itextsharp-questions@...>  
> Sent: Tuesday, June 23, 2009 10:38 AM
> Subject: Re: [itextsharp-questions] Stack overflow
> using PdfWriter
>
>
> I had the same problem. My environment was IIS6 but
> it's the same problem.
> The only solution I found was increasing the stack size
> of the process/thread.
>
>
>
> http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=2433d

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>
> http://fhtino.blogspot.com/2008/04/iis6-stackoverflow.html
>
>
>   fabrizio
>
>
>
> On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 9:55 PM, Gylfi Ingvason
> <Gylfi.Ingvason@...> wrote:
>
>
> I'm getting a stack overflow error when
> concatenating a bunch of files using
> PdfWriter. This occurs in Tree.cs
> (/trunk/src/coreSystem/util/Collections)
> where the private Insert member appears to get
> into a state where it calls
> itself recursively until an exception occurs.
>
>
> ........