Or, depending on the version of CF8 and your familiarity with it, you could look at using CFTHREAD since those use a separate thread pool.
On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 6:08 PM, Brian Kotek <brian...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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:319004 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
