Re: File upload memory usage.

On Wednesday 24 July 2002 21:48, Reid Sutherland wrote: > Hi, > > I'm currently locked in a battle with PHP and file uploads. I've > searched the list to no avail. I actually found a guy with the same > problem who ended up using perl to make this work. I'm trying to avoid > that. > > The problem is, I'm dealing with huge POST uploads (100+ mb). And > everytime you upload a file it stores it in RAM and then dumps the file > to the drive. Is there any way around this? This is extremely > dangerous. Since this customer may have multiple people uploading at > the same time, it could result in a massive memory hit over a long > period of time. > > Now I figured PHP would pipe the POST stream into a temporary file > instead of holding it in RAM. This is how it should work right? Apparently that is how it will work in a _future_ version of PHP. But for now it's all stuffed in RAM until the complete file is received. -- Jason Wong -> Gremlins Associates -> www.gremlins.com.hk Open Source Software Systems Integrators * Web Design & Hosting * Internet & Intranet Applications Development * /* Yow! Did something bad happen or am I in a drive-in movie?? */