Bug #17606 Updated: File upload fails on large files

ID: 17606 Updated by: sesser@php.net Reported By: luimarma@iti.upv.es Status: Bogus Bug Type: HTTP related Operating System: RedHat 7.3 PHP Version: 4.2.1 New Comment: Are you sure you are using php 4.2.1 ? Since php 4.2.0, uploaded files aren't stored in memory. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-06-06 05:27:20] luimarma@iti.upv.es A more detailed study of the problem led me to the next results. Regardless de memory limit parameter the file completelly uploads. It writes the file to the temp dir at disk as it loads the whole file into memory. I can accept that this is a known behaviour but I dont think that this is a good method if one is willing to implement a php-web based software repository. So the question is the following. Is there any cons about just writting the file in the tmp dir instead than duplicating the task into memory? Please, answer the question as I am evauating to do the hack myself. Thanks, Luis ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-06-06 04:22:28] sander@php.net Yeah, this is known behaviour. PHP reads the whole uploaded file into memory before writing it to disk. Not a bug. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-06-05 07:55:28] luimarma@iti.upv.es The first problem was solved (now memory_limit is used) as it was a configuration problem. The second problem still stays. The upload eats system memory until memory_limit. If I am using a tmp dir why does this happen? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-06-05 07:09:49] luimarma@iti.upv.es Upload fails regardless the value of memory_limit value. I am using the following values for post file uploading: memory_limit = 10M post_max_size = 10M file_uploads = On upload_max_filesize = 10M allow_url_fopen = On Uploading anything bigger than a pair of megs fails I have also tried with php-4.1.2-7 but then I could only upload till memory_limit value, and the upload tmp dir is only used when the whole file is in memory, so I can only upload files up to the amount of memory y have in the system. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=17606&edit=1