note 101154 deleted from function.readfile by danbrown

Note Submitter: phpwiz at shiinaringoLESSSPAM dot se ---- Another note on the smartReadFile function from gaosipov: Beware when sending big files. They will quickly eat your memory (PHP memory, or system memory if no limit is set), because I guess somewhere PHP buffers the output. I added flushing inside the while loop, the loop that's outputting the file: <?php while (!feof($fm) && $cur < $end &&(connection_status() == 0)) { print fread($fm, min(1024 * 16, $end - $cur)); $cur += 1024 * 16; flush(); ob_flush(); } ?> With this I managed to send 200-300 MB files with a PHP memory limit set at 8 MB. Without the flushing, it would die out because of reaching the memory limit even at 128 MB. I'm not sure which of the two flushes did the trick.