Mof file size limit? about powershell-dsc-for-linux HOT 5 CLOSED

I'm hitting this too.

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This is a known limit. DSC config files must be smaller than 23Kb in order to load them into the Azure Automation DSC solution. If you have a config file which is larger than 23Kb, you may be able to reduce the size by converting the MOF to use UTF-8 encoding instead of Unicode, which can reduce the size of the config file by nearly half.

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Thanks for the reply @BrCutler.
Converting to UTF-8 really shrinks the size to half.
However, we have a mof of 80Kb for our Linux servers, so 40Kb its still not enough. The way we made it work was to split it into 4 configurations and run 1 mof at the time.

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This is certainly still an issue. It's possible to give yourself a little extra headroom by re-encoding to UTF-8, but still, 24kb limit is pretty restricting. Plus, it's only vaguely documented in comments like this - please add to the "limits" section of the readme.md.

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I created microsoft/omi#753 as the issue occurs when calling omicli.
After seven years, this size limitation is still an issue.

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