Memory Limitations in XmlProvider

[ibrahim324]

I tried to parse a dump of some wikipedia pages with XmlProvider, but no matter what I try, I get a
System.OutOfMemoryException. Is there some guidance/pattern on how to parse large files with type providers?
The file is almost exactly 2 GB large.

my code:

#r "nuget: FSharp.Data"
open FSharp.Data

open System
open System.IO

type Wiki = XmlProvider<"""data/wikidata_sample.xml""">


let xmlFromFile = 
    task{
        let path = "data/wikidata.xml" 
        let! text = File.ReadAllTextAsync(path)
        
        Wiki.Parse(text).Pages
        |> Array.map (fun f -> f.Revision.Text)
        |> Array.iter (fun f -> printfn $"{f}")
    }

let xmlFromStream = 
    let options = 
        new FileStreamOptions(BufferSize=32)
    use stream = new FileStream("data/wikidata.xml", options)
    stream 
    |> Wiki.Load
    |> fun f -> f.Pages
    |> Array.map (fun f -> f.Revision.Text.Value)
    |> Array.iter (fun f -> printfn $"{f}")

xmlFromStream

// xmlFromFile 
// |> Async.AwaitTask
// |> Async.RunSynchronously

[cartermp]

Can you post the stack trace when this happens?

[ibrahim324]

this is the complete error message (copied from fsi):

System.OutOfMemoryException: Exception of type 'System.OutOfMemoryException' was thrown.
   at System.Text.StringBuilder.ToString()
   at FSharp.Data.Runtime.BaseTypes.XmlElement.Create(TextReader reader) in D:\a\FSharp.Data\FSharp.Data\src\FSharp.Data.Xml.Core\XmlRuntime.fs:line 59
   at <StartupCode$FSI_0003>.$FSI_0003.main@() in /Users/halilibrahimozcan/source/projects/fsharp_xml_parsing/script.fsx:line 25
   at System.RuntimeMethodHandle.InvokeMethod(Object target, Void** arguments, Signature sig, Boolean isConstructor)
   at System.Reflection.MethodBaseInvoker.InvokeWithNoArgs(Object obj, BindingFlags invokeAttr)
Aufgrund eines Fehlers beendet

Any other way to retrieve info about the error?

[cartermp]

Thanks! In this case it seems the size of the string is too big, as this is failing with the internal StringBuilder used in the XML Reader. Are you running in a 32-bit process?

[ibrahim324]

@cartermp No, I have not configured fsi in any way. I'm running on MacOS if that makes a difference.

[Thorium]

Does it matter if the source file encoding is UTF8 or UTF16 ?

[ibrahim324]

@Thorium Can you point to where I should set the encoding? I tried the following:
let text = File.ReadAllText(path, Encoding.UTF32)
which didn't work, unfortunately. UTF16 wasn't available either.

[Thorium]

I meant if you have the file as XML, if it's UTF16 then consider converting it to UTF8 to use less memory, e.g. Notepad++ tells you:

[ibrahim324]

@Thorium Hi, I just opened it in Notepad++; The file was encoded in UTF-8 to begin with.

[dsyme]

Try using fsiAnyCpu - fsi runs 32-bit by default

[ibrahim324]

@dsyme That doesn't seem to be the issue - i ran the script within Rider, which is anycpu by default as I checked. I also ran a console program, but it's still an OutOfMemoryException.