[Zope] MegaMedia Upload External Method -- need advice

Robin Becker robin@jessikat.demon.co.uk
Fri, 24 Sep 1999 12:10:56 +0100


In article <000501bf062d$5094fea0$8b0127d8@eagle.icompression.com>,
Loren Stafford <lstafford@icompression.com> writes
...
>What worries me is what Unix does with the payload before FieldStorage opens
>STDIN. I suppose Unix stores the file in a I/O buffer in virtual memory. How
>can you possibly be sure you have enough VM for all the multimegabyte
>multimedia files that might be uploaded at once?
>
>-- Thanks
>-- Loren
>
>
...
Zope restricts the total number of threads, but if you had 100
simultaneous uploads going on you'ld typically only have 400k-1.6M
required (depending on the default buffer size).
-- 
Robin Becker