Hi Tobes,

Not sure if this overlaps, but something else to consider:

http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/index.html?uploadobjusingmpu.html

Good luck,
Keenan

On Jan 13, 2011, at 3:33 PM, Jimmy Thrasher wrote:

> Hi Tobes,
> 
> Unless they've removed the 30s hard limit, you should see those requests 
> dying after 30s, but yes, in theory if it takes 10 minutes it blocks your 
> upload.
> 
> An approach I like but have never had the need to implement would be to use 
> the "upload by POST" technique, described here: 
> http://aws.amazon.com/articles/1434?_encoding=UTF8&jiveRedirect=1
> 
> You basically create a signed URL with an expiration date which allows a user 
> to upload to a bucket you have rights to. There are third party utilities, 
> often written in Flash, to help you accomplish this.
> 
> Hope that helps,
> 
> Jimmy
> 
> On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 3:28 PM, Tobes <to...@tobinharris.com> wrote:
> Hi guys
> 
> Sorry, this is a lazy question...
> 
> If we have 1 dyno, and a user uploads a file that takes 10 minutes,
> will the other requests to the app be blocked for 10 minutes?
> 
> Looking at our logs it looks like that *is* the case. We do store
> files on S3 btw, but our Rails app receives the file and moves it to
> S3. It's the blocking we're interested in knowing about (I know Rails
> doesn't block usually)
> 
> Tobin
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