[Zope] Large file transfers

Chris Withers chrisw@nipltd.com
Mon, 4 Jun 2001 08:54:40 +0100


> BTW: For uploads that large, a lot of RAM on the server might be needed. I
> am not sure whether Zope tries to receive and store the file in one bit,
but
> if it does, you need enough memory to hold the whole thing if you don't
want
> to put your server into "swap mode" ...

I'm pretty sure this is unneccessary. IIRC, Zope uses sub-transactions to
write the file to disk in small-ish bits if its large rather than hogging
lots of RAM.

cheers,

Chris

PS: Joachim: I get quite a lot of bounces from your Iuveno address, is
everything okay there?