100 MB INI sample

An INI file of exactly 104,857,600 bytes. It is a valid INI configuration file file, generated by this site. Compare its checksum and test it with the parser used by your application. Use it wherever you need a 100 MB sample, test or dummy INI file.

sample-ini-100mb.ini

100 MB104,857,600 bytes

Download 100 MB INI

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Type: text/plain
SHA-256: 86bf965f246e8e1db1c813d952a360fbe8d3bab148eaa59645208a96c668049b
Delivery: Created in your browser from static generator assets (how it works).

What is in this file

A [general] section and 866,090 [record-N] sections of key = value pairs. Comment lines at the end bring the file to the exact size.

Sections	866,091
Comment character	Semicolon
Quoting	None
Encoding	UTF-8 (ASCII characters only)

How the file begins

The opening lines of sample-ini-100mb.ini, exactly as they appear in the file.

00000000  3b 20 53 61 6d 70 6c 65  54 65 73 74 46 69 6c 65 |; SampleTestFile|
00000010  73 20 73 61 6d 70 6c 65  20 49 4e 49 20 66 69 6c |s sample INI fil|
00000020  65 20 28 31 30 30 20 4d  42 29 0a 5b 67 65 6e 65 |e (100 MB).[gene|
00000030  72 61 6c 5d 0a 67 65 6e  65 72 61 74 6f 72 20 3d |ral].generator =|

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Where 100 MB matters

A 104,857,600-byte file: the request-body limit of Cloudflare's Free and Pro plans, and the size above which GitHub rejects a file outright.

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Use this file for

Finding the first upload limit in a new stack
Testing settings import in desktop software
Testing configuration readers

Testing notes for INI

Because nothing is standardised, test with the exact parser you ship; a file that one library accepts another may reject.

INI format reference

Technical details

File name	sample-ini-100mb.ini
Format	INI (INI configuration file)
Extension	.ini
MIME type	text/plain
Size	104,857,600 bytes (100 MB)
Kind	Text
SHA-256	86bf965f246e8e1db1c813d952a360fbe8d3bab148eaa59645208a96c668049b
Created	2026-10-23
Validation	See the listed size and SHA-256. Small downloads are checked in the browser; verify streamed downloads manually. A hash match does not prove parser compatibility.
Preview	Available on this page
Source	Generated in your browser by this site's generator; not copied from elsewhere
Licence	Free to use, modify and redistribute (terms)
Category	Configuration

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Questions about this file

Is this file exactly 100 MB?: Yes. It is 104,857,600 bytes, which is 100 MB in the binary units that operating systems and server limits use (1 KB = 1,024 bytes).
What is inside the 100 MB INI file?: A [general] section and 866,090 [record-N] sections of key = value pairs. Comment lines at the end bring the file to the exact size.
Which comment style do the samples use?: Semicolons, which the widest range of parsers accept.

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