Because of the way the code is currently written, a file upload ends up in
RAM before it gets written to disk. If you want to upload 1Gig files, you
need >1Gig of RAM. That's crap, we know, and Jim Winstead has volunteered
to fix this. Not sure what the timeline is on it yet though.
-Rasmus
On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, Tim Meader wrote:
> Hello all. I've spent the past month or two implementing a file upload
> utility for the web based on PHP's http upload method. It works fine for
> smaller files, and it's been working fine for files I've tried up to and
> including 400 megs at a time. The problem I'm having is that we want to
> roll this out on a center-wide scale, but that would most likely mean files
> up to 1Gig being uploaded at a time. Is this possible through the http
> upload process. I've been unsuccessful thus far to upload a file this large
> for some reason. Upon checking the Apache error_log, I found the following
> message:
>
> FATAL: erealloc(): Unable to allocate 112568001 bytes
> [error] PHP Warning: File Upload Error - No Mime boundary found after start
> of file header in unknown line 0
>
> Now, am I correct in thinking that the second line is merely a result of
> the failed upload? If so, then I suppose that can be disregarded, but which
> program is generating the erealloc(), Apache or PHP?
>
> I've been following threads on File Upload for quite a while now, and all
> relevent settings in the php.ini are set correctly to allow file uploads of
> this size (at least in theory). All settings having to do with upload
> limits are set at "2000000000", however, no documentation states what value
> this setting stands for (kb, Mb, etc.), so this SHOULD roughly be equal to
> 2Gigs, assuming that it defaults to bytes. Also the timeout has been set to
> 86400 seconds, ie a 24hour period.
>
> The current box this is running on is a Ultra 5 running Solaris 7, Apache
> 1.3.14, with PHP 4.0.4. It has 256 megs of ram, and the partition being
> used for this test phase is 18 gigs, so size shouldn't be an issue. The
> temp upload directory in the php.ini has also been set to use a temp folder
> on this same partition.
>
> PLEASE, any suggestions you have would be MUCH appreciated. Thank you in
> advance for any and all replies. Hope to hear something soon!
>
>
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