[Zope-dev] Streaming Response

[Toby Dickenson]

On Wednesday 16 April 2003 3:13 pm, Casey Duncan wrote:

> The file is divided into 64K chunks, each of which is pickled. Each chunk
> is unpickled separately and then discarded.

If I remember correctly, chunks are not explicitly discarded. They will 
certainly stay in memory until the end of the transaction, then the garbage 
collector will drop the least recently used objects. A 200MB file will 
certainly cause a 200MB memory surge when downloaded.

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Toby Dickenson
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