how to allocate ram to c# process

Question

HI friends i have c# program that creates excel files using text files. but in larger text files the file creating process will run lot of hours. i think i can solve that problem by allocating more memory to that process. i tried heap and stack methods. but i couldn't make it. so please help me friends.

Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan · Answer

C# is a managed programming language which means that you do not have to work around with memory yourself. The good thing is that .NET's VM does that for you the bad thing is that you cannot manage the memory like you can in C++ or C. You mentioned that you want to increase the memory consumption (size) for that program. I am here to tell you that even increasing the memory block size won't help you with this. The problem is with the processing time that is required. Bigger file would take more CPU cycles and that is what takes time. Even if you increase the RAM space for this your CPU won't do anything better however you will successfully add an overhead CPU cycle just to manage the extra memory. So try to cut short the file into chunks and then manage it an create the Excel files. Otherwise if none of these is possible then try to: Increase the CPU cores Fine tune the CPU to its fullest clock. Kill any other processes and try CPU for just your process! If none of these works then you should have to bear with this. Time would be required for such a big file.