On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 16:46, Vincent Massol <vinc...@massol.net> wrote: > > 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?
Yes attachment content is loaded on demand, when you load a page you get only a list of attachments names. > >> 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 > -- Thomas Mortagne _______________________________________________ users mailing list users@xwiki.org http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users
