[Zope] searching and serving large textfiles ~120 Mb

[Paul Winkler]

On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 08:24:56PM +0100, Stefan H. Holek wrote:
> FWIW, ExtFile only serves one chunk at a time and does not load the 
> entire file into RAM. Don't know about LocalFS though.

It looks like every time you request a particular file from LocalFS,
it instantiates a fresh OFS.Image.File from the filesystem data. 
For large files that seems likely to be expensive, but I haven't checked.
Once the File is created it will serve chunks as usual.

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