On Nov 10, 2009, at 4:32 PM, Guillaume Lerouge wrote: > Hi Mary Ellen, > > On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 4:22 PM, MaryEllen Coleman <m...@us.ibm.com> > wrote: > >> >> Is there a limit to the number of files that can be attached to an >> XWiki >> page? If a page has 199 attachments, would it cause any problems or >> issues? >> > > More than the total number of attached files, it's the size of those > files > that might be an issue. Each time a new document is added a new > version of > the page is stored on the database, that has a copy of all the other > documents currently attached to itself. Meaning that if each of your > attached files is 1MB, your total page size is 200MB and each time > you add > an attached file it becomes a bit heavier. Once it becomes really big > operations on that page start taking a lot of time and consume a lot > of > memory resources.
I'm not sure this is right. Attachments are not loaded when the doc is loaded (only the list of attachment is loaded which is a single query to the DB to get the names) so you can have as many as you want I believe. It's only when an attachment is manipulated and thus loaded in memory that it takes up memory space. Now I haven't tested it for real so I don't really know. Can someone with more experience qualify this answer? > To make it short: it will work if you've got a big computer on the > backend > but it's not recommended. > > A better solution would be to create a new page for each file and > list all > the pages you've created (since XE 1.8 you can use a space homepage > for > this). This is pretty cumbersome and I wouldn't recommend it. Thanks -Vincent > Guillaume > > >> ** Mary Ellen >> ______________ _______________________________________________ users mailing list users@xwiki.org http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users
