Greetings,
 
So I did my homework... and I"m looking for anyone that has tested large 
attachments.
 
The Attachment table's content field in the rt3 database uses longtext as the 
datatype.  This means it can hold a 4GB file.  However in the default 
RT_SiteConfig.pm it has it cut off at 10mb.
 
Now, I have come to realize that fetchmail is the reason why this is low.  Our 
fetchmail tried to parse a 100mb file into an RT ticket, and it ended up 
forking perl processes until the server ran out of memory and started using 
swap memory, and eventually crippled the server.
 
My question is, what is the biggest size file fetchmail can parse without the 
above happening?  Is it dependent on RAM?  Our box has 4GB of ram, and it 
chewed through that in a matter of seconds....
 
Also, if the user manually attaches a file through the Web Interface, is there 
any limitation with RT itself, now that I know mysql can handle a 4GB file?
 
We are on an older version, but this question remains the same for the latest 
version.  The latest version of RT's default config has attachments of 10mb 
truncated.
 
Thanks!
 
 
Mike Johnson
Datatel Programmer/Analyst
Northern Ontario School of Medicine
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