Re: php File upload

Per Jessen wrote: > Jim Lucas wrote: > >> I have never seen a case where Apache has stored the file on the file >> system. In my past experience it has always held the file in memory, >> therefor limited to the max physical memory that was install, minus a >> little for other things. > > Well, I can easily show you such a case - I can upload a 1Gb file > without apache memory usage changing one bit. Even if Apache did > upload into memory, why would that make the file limited to the max > amount of physical memory?? > > How about if I upload a 1Gb file to a webserver on a machine that only > has 256Mb memory - would you say that's impossible? Just did that (1Gb file uploaded to machine with 256M RAM) - Apache definitely does _not_ store the uploaded file in memory, I also straced the upload, and it's 1) read from socket followed by 2) write to disk. /Per Jessen, Zürich