Peter J. Boettcher — Thu, 21 Feb 2002 22:06:41 +0000

I don't know off-hand how large Application variables can be. Obviously they are limited to the physical and virtual memory limits on your server. You can probably stuff a whole lot of stuff in it, but the bigger it get's the slower your server will get since you'll start chewing up memory. So in otherwords it will blow up, I'm just not sure how long it will take.

What you should probably do is archive the data to an xml file or database as it reaches a certain size (number of characters or lines) so you don't get nasty users crashing your server by flooding it.

Will This Work

mycoolross — Thu, 21 Feb 2002 19:01:05 +0000

How much data can an Application variable hold?

Application("chat1") = Application("chat1") & "" & Request.Cookies("nick") & ": " & txtMessage

If I put all of the messages in this variable it works.
But will it blow up when it gets to be a certain size?

Thanks,

- Mike