Virtual scroll has a scroll size limit
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Description
#### What is the expected behavior?
The scroll is next to unlimited in its length
#### What is the current behavior?
Scrolling reaches it's limit at `3.3553e7px`
#### What are the steps to reproduce?
There should be 1 Million items 191739 are reachable
https://stackblitz.com/edit/angular-material2-issue-mlhd9q
#### Which versions of Angular, Material, OS, TypeScript, browsers are affected?
```json
"@angular/cdk": "7.0.2",
"@angular/core": "7.0.1",
```
Google Chrome
Version 71.0.3578.98 (Official Build) (64-bit)
#### Is there anything else we should know?
It doesn't seem to be a browser limit. I have been able to create a larger scroll area than the limit above and also successfully used `translateY()` with a greater value.'
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UPDATE:
I tried to debug it and found out the culprit is in the `measureScrollOffset()`: it starts to return wrong values at around 50.000.000px
https://github.com/angular/material2/blob/b51f14350200d1d0e9ad8c96485fd6dfe6e7a180/src/cdk/scrolling/scrollable.ts#L148
`el.scrollTop` returns a wrong value.
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Research direction
Start with src/cdk/scrolling/scrollable.ts at measureScrollOffset(), then reproduce the StackBlitz case with 1 million items. Check el.scrollTop around the reported 33.553 million and 50 million pixel thresholds; done means virtual scrolling can reach all items without incorrect scroll offsets.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- angular, typescript
- Domain
- frontend, performance
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Clearly specified
- Newbie friendliness
- 38/100