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karuchicken
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What is the maximum size of roRegistrySection?

Hi all,

I need to cache a huge amount of data. I would like to know what the maximum size of roRegistrySection is? I have tired to use registrySection for data storage but I couldn't retrieve all data back

Thanks.
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belltown
Roku Guru

Re: What is the maximum size of roRegistrySection?

16K, according to the Streaming Player Component Reference, section 4.23 roRegistry.
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karuchicken
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Re: What is the maximum size of roRegistrySection?

Thanks for the quick reply.

So I guess the application cannot store around 800k data? Am I correct?
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TheEndless
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Re: What is the maximum size of roRegistrySection?

"karuchicken" wrote:
Thanks for the quick reply.

So I guess the application cannot store around 800k data? Am I correct?

You can't persist that much data on the Roku, but you should be able to store it in the tmp:/ location for the duration of the channel session.
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