PHP 4.0 Bug #8377: File uploads with POST methods takes full Server processing capacity and memory

From: samuel@liones.nl Operating system: Windows NT4/2000 PHP version: 4.0.4 PHP Bug Type: Performance problem Bug description: File uploads with POST methods takes full Server processing capacity and memory When doing a file upload on a big file (say 22MB), PHP takes up progressingly more CPU capacity for the whole duration of the upload. The server doesn't crashes but it is so slow that other people can't reach my server, when i'm uploading a big file. I now use a ASP-component on the server-side which handles the uploading and this component doesn't slow my server down when uploading a big file. Can PHP handle big file uploads in the future? This is the HTML that uploads the file: <input type=hidden name='MAX_FILE_SIZE' value='25000000'> <input type='file' size='50' name='frm_file_name' class='input' value=''></input> -- Edit Bug report at: http://bugs.php.net/?id=8377&edit=1