I'm using the NSURLConnection class to download a large file in my iPhone application, but it crashes every so often because it's using too much memory. I'm doing the usual NSURLConnection usage, to append the received data to a NSMutableData object. - (void)connection:(NSURLConnection *)connection didReceiveData:(NSData *)data { [self.fileData appendData:data]; } Then after I finish downloading t
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