Re: [? BUG ?] weird thing;downloading from a php script stops at exactly 2.000.000 bytes

Hi, There is not a big speed difference between the two. The only thing is that it was frustrating to find out the limitations on readfile. I used it before with large files and it was ok; only to find out now that on 5.0.4 it doesn't work as it used to. As php manual states readfile should be the way to spit a file out the wire. btw: $fp = fopen('somefile'); fpassthru($fp); is also stopping at 2.000.000 bytes, which definetely drives me to think there is a bug somewhere. Catalin Richard Lynch wrote: > On Thu, June 9, 2005 4:12 pm, Catalin Trifu said: > >> Tried it and it works indeed, but it's quite annoying to make such >>tricks >>and is not the best solution either; fopen and fread are "expensive". >> I can't say if it's a bug in PHP or some config option. > > > You may want to benchmark the difference between readfile and fopen/fread > for a 1.9M file. > > If it ain't much, don't worry about it. > > One posible work-around: > > cat filename; > > This MIGHT be cheaper than fopen/fread -- Or not, since it has to build a > shell of some kind, I think. > > PS File a bug report, if you haven't already. >