Re: large files and readfile

On 6 Feb 2006, at 17:21, Daniel Bondurant wrote:

I am using php and readfile() to control the download of large

files; These files can be up to 1GB.    There is nothing really exciting or special about the script itself.

The problem I am running into is php is loading the entire file into apache's memory as the file is being read - this seems quite unnecessary. I tired it with fpassthru() as well, with the same result. Why is php loading the entire file into memory? Is there another/better way to download the files (other that resorting to mod_rewrite) that won't use up necessary memory?

fpassthru does not load the file fully into memory first. How are you benchmarking the memory load (and determining its specific cause) ? What other systems might be at work here causing this? What else does your script do? Cheers, Rich -- http://www.corephp.co.uk Zend Certified Engineer PHP Development Services