Firefox! Thanks very much for this - it's really helpful.
I use apache/postgres on production servers but it will take me a very long time to upload such a big file to those [remote] servers, so I was testing locally. Based on your experience, I think my issue is probably just due to the limitations of rocket, so I won't sweat it. ;) -jl On Wednesday, October 10, 2018 at 3:41:29 PM UTC-6, Dave S wrote: > > > > On Wednesday, October 10, 2018 at 9:31:04 AM UTC-7, Jordan Ladora wrote: >> >> Hi! >> >> I just noticed that uploading files up to around 120mb using a simple >> form (crud.create) and model works reliably using the default setup on >> linux (sqlite and rocket). But when trying to upload files around 500mb, >> while the file always goes correctly to the upload folder, the db insert >> only occurs around 25% of the time, maybe even less.. basically sometimes >> it works but usually it doesn't. >> >> The sizes of 120mb and 500mb are just the big files I happened to have. I >> haven't gone through and tested up to what file size it is when things stop >> working reliably. >> >> Was wondering if anyone had a similar experience? >> > > >> TY! >> > -jl >> >> > > > First question: what's uploading the file (what browser or client is > being used)? > > Also, I used to use Rocket on a low-traffic production server running on > AWS linux, but had occasional issues with big files, especially from a > Windows client using WinInet calls. The issue was at least in part the > signalling of the end of transfer; the client generally got finished and > went back to minding its own business while the server sat around waiting > for completion, and eventually timing out. I also had problems with the > system breaking after an update of my LetsEncrypt certificates (I don't > think I figured out what broke). > > For those reasons, I switched to NginX, and have been very happy. Basic > setup is quite easy (the sample installation scripts were pretty close to > what I did -- I cribbed heavily from them; for AWS it was a matter of > combining part of the Ubunto with part of the Centos scripts. > > For more detail on my experiences, > <URL:https://groups.google.com/d/msg/web2py/lSdsqHLftVQ/Hf1j7z5jCwAJ> > that connects to a thread about the Rocket server hanging (headlined as > "crash") in > <URL:https://groups.google.com/d/msg/web2py/dTK5lxWBsIA/3sIYnwMsBwAJ> > > In the client-happy-server-logs-a-timeout scenario, the file eventually > showed up in the download dir; I don't remember if the database entry was > completed. > > Rocket (in it's web2py fork) have been pretty stable for a long time, and > I think it is unlikely to get much maintenance until a security issue shows > up. > > /dps > > > > -- Resources: - http://web2py.com - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
