Over 1000 components in form weights of components mess up start duplicating weights [#1811678]

I have created a large form. All was well. As I added or cloned new components, I would drag them to a new area, save and they would assume a new weight. However when I reached 1000 components in the form, I stopped being able to move the new components. They will not assume new weights, or stay when relocated. Upon save they revert to their previous position, and what appears to be a random weight. Reordering with negative numbers does not help. Was about to try decimals to get the added places when was suggested that I try here. Can anyone help?

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quicksketch

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commented 13 October 2012 at 09:18

Hm, I dare say you're approaching the fringes of Webform's ability. I've heard of forms with 400-500 components, but over 1000... this is the first attempt I think I've heard at it. I'm not sure where the limit would actually be encountered, I'd guess it'd be based on your server's capabilities. The only hard limit that I know of is that MySQL's smallint fields cap out at 25,000, but that doesn't seem like it'd be a problem in this situation. It seems likely that you may be running into a limit of 1024 somewhere, which is a common limit as it is a common power of 2 where limits may be set, but I don't know of anything in particular that has this limit.