I am using php and readfile() to control the download of large files; These files can be up to 1GB. There is nothing really exciting or special about the script itself.

The problem I am running into is php is loading the entire file into apache's memory as the file is being read - this seems quite unnecessary. I tired it with fpassthru() as well, with the same result.

Why is php loading the entire file into memory? Is there another/ better way to download the files (other that resorting to mod_rewrite) that won't use up necessary memory?

thanks
 - daniel

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