Re: Sessions memory allocation problem

Richard Lynch wrote: > adrian zaharia wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I am testing the following code that pushes a file to the browser >> (Apache 1.3 + PHP 4.3.8 but tested also under several other configs) >> >> Try it with a BIG test1.zip (e.g. 100M in size) >> >> <?php >> ignore_user_abort(); >> set_time_limit(0); >> >> session_save_path('/tmp'); >> session_start(); >> >> $sFileName = 'test1.zip'; >> $sFileDir = '/var/www/html/'; >> >> header("Content-Type: application/octet-stream"); >> header("Content-Disposition: attachment;filename=\"" . $sFileName . >> "\""); header("Content-Length: " . filesize($sFileDir . >> $sFileName)); >> header('Pragma: cache'); >> header('Cache-Control: public, must-revalidate, max-age=0'); >> header('Connection: close'); >> header('Expires: ' . date('r', time()+60*60)); >> header('Last-Modified: ' . date('r', time())); >> >> $oFp = fopen($sFileDir . $sFileName, "rb"); >> $iReadBufferSize = 512; >> while (!feof($oFp)) { >> echo fread ($oFp, $iReadBufferSize); >> } >> fclose ($oFp); >> exit; >> >> ?> >> >> What i discovered is that if i keep the 2 session initialisation >> functions the script will work ONLY if the allocated memory is greater >> than the size of the tested file. If i remove the session functions the >> script works fine >> even if the test1.zip file is very big (hundreds of Megs) >> >> Is it something i do wrong? Or is a bug and i should report it? >> >> I mention that I NEED the 2 functions so removing them is not THE >> solution. >> Nor setting in php.ini a huge memory limit :( > > This naive reader would suggest filing a bug report... > > At least, *I* don't think it should behave this way. > > http://bugs.php.net > See this: http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=31763&edit=2 Is not a bug but they under some configurations they cache the output :( Adrian