At 12:03 PM 3/14/01 -0800, you wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>What is the maximum post size? I use DNews 5.5b3. I tried to increase the
>item_max parameter to 20000000 (20MB), issued tellnews reload, even
>restarted the server.
>
>No matter what the size of item_max is above 10MB somehow there seems to
>be a limit somewhere else. And when the client tries to post a big file (>
>10MB) it comes back with an error message saying that posts bigger than
>10MB are not accepted. What gives?
There is a hard coded limit of 10mb currently, in the next build there is a
new setting
real_max 30000000
which you can set to a higher value, the reason for this is we found people
were interpreting item_max
as meaning 'limit items to this size' and therefore setting it to a hundred
mb's or something a bit silly, unfortunately
the setting is actually 'allow internal data structures to be this big and
pre-allocate some' so setting it larger than
needed was really nasty, as a result we had the stupid idea of limiting it
to 10mb even if it was set larger.
(well it would have been ok if we'd added this extra setting to disable the
limit but we didn't initially)
Let me know what platform you are on and I'll send you a patch.
Of course I still wouldn't recommend using a large setting which can make
users think they are
successfully posting when in reality most other servers in the world will
be rejecting their post. The case where
this doesn't apply is local groups.
ChrisP.
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