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function
Function syntax
integer llGetMemoryLimit();
Returns
integer
Energy
10

Returns an integer representing the maximum memory limit (in bytes) that the script is allowed to allocate.

Get the maximum memory a script can use.

How to use
integer result = llGetMemoryLimit();

Specification

Section titled “Specification”

;Mono:Gets the memory limit for the script.

  • The memory limit can be up to 64k.
  • The default memory limit is 64k1.
  • The memory limit is not the amount of real memory actually used by the script, just the upper limit on how much it could use.

;LSO:LSO scripts will always use exactly 16k

Examples

Section titled “Examples”
Example 1
default
{
    state_entry()
    {
        llSetMemoryLimit( 4000 ); // set the memory limit


        // display memory usage...
        llSay(0, "Memory used: " + (string)llGetFreeMemory() + " bytes, total memory: " +
            (string)llGetMemoryLimit() + " bytes." );
    }
}


// outputs
// Object: Memory used: 124 bytes, total memory: 4000 bytes.

History

Section titled “History”

Date of Release 10/08/2011

See also

Section titled “See also”

Functions

Section titled “Functions”
Original wiki source

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From the Second Life Wiki

Community documentation adapted from LlGetMemoryLimit, by Linden Research, Inc. and contributing residents.View contributors and history.

Imported wiki revision:

Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0. Last wiki edit: .Formatting and links have been adapted for this site; API metadata follows the LSL definitions.

Footnotes

Section titled “Footnotes”

  1. Prior to scripts being able to set their own limit, the limit was set to 64k ↩