On 6 Feb 2006, at 17:21, Daniel Bondurant wrote:
I am using php and readfile() to control the download of large
files; These files can be up to 1GB. There is nothing really
exciting or special about the script itself.
The problem I am running into is php is loading the entire file
into apache's memory as the file is being read - this seems quite
unnecessary. I tired it with fpassthru() as well, with the same
result.
Why is php loading the entire file into memory? Is there another/
better way to download the files (other that resorting to
mod_rewrite) that won't use up necessary memory?
fpassthru does not load the file fully into memory first.
How are you benchmarking the memory load (and determining its
specific cause) ?
What other systems might be at work here causing this?
What else does your script do?
Cheers,
Rich
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