The issue isn't memory usage as much as it is thread usage. A server thread will be occupied for the entire duration of the download. Which means if you have large files, and 50 people are downloading, then that is 50 of your threads used for however long it takes their downloads to complete. The same is true for uploads, only much worse, since most people's upload speed is far lower than their download speed.
Basically, if you plan on doing lots of large file uploads or downloads, you need to set up a dedicated file server or look at something like FTP. On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 3:29 PM, Nathan Strutz <str...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Seb, > > It is most likely that CF will open the file you are delivering, however, > it > will probably be more in a streaming fashion, aka, it will probably not all > be loaded into active memory. > > I just did it with a 200MB file, the memory went up about 6MB and now has > dropped down 12MB. I would say it's safe. > > It literally streams it from disk to network and to local disk without any > one application loading 200MB of data. I used CF7 and Firefox 3. > > nathan strutz > [Blog and Family @ http://www.dopefly.com/] > [AZCFUG Manager @ http://www.azcfug.org/] > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:319003 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
