Hi.
I have searched a few of the mailing lists, and have not found an answer.
I am working on a site that is currently running gforge (
http://gforge.org/ ). The process that is used to download files from the
file repository is something like:
Header('Content-disposition:
Robin Getz wrote:
The issue is that readfile writes it to the output buffer before sending
it to the client.
Are you sure you HAVE output buffering? What does ob_get_level() return?
If it returns 0 then you don't have output buffering.
My theory (and it's only a theory) is, that readfile may
Klaus Reimer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If this theory is true, you may try fpassthru().
replaced:
readfile($name);
with:
$fp = fopen($name, 'rb');
fpassthru($fp);
and now I don't loose 250 Meg of memory every time I download a 250Meg
file. If someone wants to add this to the readfile() php
On Thu, 04 Nov 2004 08:22:18 -0800, Robin Getz
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
and now I don't loose 250 Meg of memory every time I download a 250Meg
file. If someone wants to add this to the readfile() php manual - great.
Anyone can post user comments in the manual. Give it a shot.
--
Greg
* Thus wrote Robin Getz:
Klaus Reimer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If this theory is true, you may try fpassthru().
replaced:
readfile($name);
with:
$fp = fopen($name, 'rb');
fpassthru($fp);
The only difference between readfile() and fpassthru() is what
parameters you pass it.
Curt Zirzow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
replaced:
readfile($name);
with:
$fp = fopen($name, 'rb');
fpassthru($fp);
The only difference between readfile() and fpassthru() is what parameters
you pass it.
Something else is the problem, what version of php are you running?
I am using php
Robin Getz wrote:
The same problem exists with fpassthru (now that I have let it run a
little longer) I now have 5 sleeping httpd processes on my system that
are consuming 200Meg each.
Any thoughts?
Ok, so much for the theory. What about the output buffering? Have you
checked if you have output
OK, I checked things out, and based on some private emails, and pointers,
from Francisco M. Marzoa [EMAIL PROTECTED], I have now
replaced:
readfile($name);
with:
while(!feof($fp)) {
$buf = fread($fp, 4096);
echo $buf;
$bytesSent+=strlen($buf);/* We know how
* Thus wrote Robin Getz:
Curt Zirzow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
replaced:
readfile($name);
with:
$fp = fopen($name, 'rb');
fpassthru($fp);
The only difference between readfile() and fpassthru() is what parameters
you pass it.
Something else is the problem, what version of
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