[Zope-dev] Downloading large files

[Michel Pelletier]

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