> Subject: Re: How Much Data Can Be Written to a Database In One Instance? > From: robert@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > To: ajwei@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > CC: php-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2009 15:26:38 -0500 > > On Wed, 2009-03-04 at 15:05 -0500, Alice Wei wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I am working on a series of long files that contain 4 or 5 MB each, each of them is encoded in UTF-8 saved as .dat format. > > However, I have noticed that when I do insert statements, the file only reads up to around 1MB and then would stop. If I split the file into 3 or 4 files, that would hold no more than 1.2 MB each, then I won't have problems. > > > > Is there a limitation on how much data can be read and written in PHP within one instance? > > See this setting in your php.ini: > > memory_limit = ???M > > Cheers, > Rob. > -- > http://www.interjinn.com > Application and Templating Framework for PHP > Weird, I had memory_limit = 128M ; Maximum amount of memory a script may consume (128MB) However, the file that I was trying to read from was 5MB of text file. I tried to read it line by line and also ran one query for each line along the way before I got it to the database. If I have a file that is around 1MB, I have no problems, but once it passes that, a lot of lines go missing. Alice _________________________________________________________________ Express yourself with gadgets on Windows Live Spaces http://discoverspaces.live.com?source=hmtag1&loc=us
