Re: [Zope-dev] Downloading large files

John Eikenberry wrote:

Here's the deal. We have a download area on one of our Zope sites. It contains a few fairly large files (between 45-60Meg).

When downloading these files, the Zope process grows by the amount of the file. Ending up at 50+ meg in active memory. The server we run on has a per process memory limitation of ~70Meg (this cannot be raised or avoided). Thus, if 2 people try to download files at the same time... Zope crashes.

Are you using Apache/PCGI? I'm pretty sure that we fixed this behavior in Zope itself a while back, but I think that PCGI queues the whole request before sending it back. I could be wrong. What ver of Zope are you using? -Michel