Re: throttle output streamed from a file?

Chris wrote:

readfile works by reading in the whole file at once - if you don't want it to do that, you can't use readfile. You don't need anything complicated, or am I misunderstanding the question which is more likely.. $size = 1048576; // 1Meg. $fp = fopen($big_file1, 'rb'); while(!feof($fp)) { $data = fgets($fp, $size); echo $data; } fclose($fp); http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.fgets.php Will 'echo' block until the client has consumed the whole $size amount of data? If not, how fast will your while loop execute? If file_size($big_file1) exceeds 1 TB, does your server end up sucking up all available memory? Or does PHP crash after hitting a memory limit?

Dante