Hello!
I am wondering what are the limits to size of the data that lives inside one canister? Is there a max limit to the size of a canister even and if so, what is it?
Also, let’s say we have a big blob to upload to the canister (a big video or a song blob or similar), which is around 5 GB in size… Would this be possible to do (considering limits). I am aware it would have to be done in chunks as the file would be huge (if someone has some kind of resource for me to take a look at the code (frontend and / or backend as well) for uploading blob chunks to a SC canister, I would appreciate that as well !
And if there are multiple 5GB files in the same canister (let’s say a 100), is it possible to have a canister carrying 500 GB of data in it? Or would that size go over the canister limit (if one) ?
A single canister can only hold upto 4gb of data … So as far as you are having blobs chunks under 4gb , it can hold them up…
Other thing , maximum data you can pass via an update call is 2mb size… (Can be less then that , Im sure about upperbound only).
If you have pre and post upgrade hooks, keep in mind that during upgrades your canister might do some allocations that can go beyond the 4gig heap limit which will render your canister impossible to upgrade.
Thank you both for answering this! I appreciate it.
4GB total for a canister looks really stingy imo, considering that they should act as sort of a database and logic layer for the dapps. Seems like options for apps are kinda limited currently due to this?
If I had to store big files (let’s say each is under the 4 GB canister limit), I’d have to use something similar to the buckets example from dfinity? examples/motoko/classes/src/map/Map.mo at master · dfinity/examples · GitHub, then save all the references for each of the buckets deployed (each one would be a new canister SC deriving the same codebase) so that I know which canister to call when interacting with a particular asset that was saved in it?
So if I had to upload a 100mb blob and I could only send up to 2 MB max in one call to a particular update method in the canister, I’d have to chunk my 100mb file 50+ times and call that method that takes partial blob chunk the same number of times from my front end code? Is there any example of how this is done?
Does anyone know what is the “safe” max limit per canister to go around this issue, or is that random allocation depending on what’s in the canister and it can’t be known up front?
So if I had to upload a 100mb blob and I could only send up to 2 MB max in one call to a particular update method in the canister, I’d have to chunk my 100mb file 50+ times and call that method that takes partial blob chunk the same number of times from my front end code? Is there any example of how this is done?
