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Subject: RE: [fielupload] how much big size file can be handled?
Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2006 15:32:45 +0100
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From: "Arijit Mukherjee" <Arijit.Mukherjee@newcastle.ac.uk>
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I've been able to upload files almost upto 2GB. I'm stuck at files >
2GB, and I suspect it's because of the native O/S and not a commons
fileupload problem.

Cheers
Arijit=20

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Leena Kulkarni [mailto:leenakulkarni2003@yahoo.com]=20
>Sent: 03 October 2006 11:53
>To: commons-user@jakarta.apache.org
>Subject: [fielupload] how much big size file can be handled?
>
> Hi Friends,
>
>I have few questions about the commons file upload.
>
>1) Is commons file upload suitable for uploading
>files>10MB in size?
>What we have observed that commons file upload load a file in=20
>memory. So for files > 10MB the deply in response is too much.
>Is this right? Is there something we are missing?
>Is there any other good variation of commons file upload if we=20
>have to use it for uploads upto 30MB?
>
>2)When we try uploading a file>40MB, we are getting Items list as 0.
>So there is nothing to iterate on and check if it is a file.
>
>Code is like the following:
>// Create a new file upload handler
>ServletFileUpload upload =3D new
>ServletFileUpload(factory);
>=20
>// Parse the request
>List /* FileItem */ items =3D
>upload.parseRequest(request); =20
>=20
>// Process the uploaded items
>Iterator iter =3D items.iterator();
>while (iter.hasNext()) {
>    FileItem item =3D (FileItem) iter.next();
>=20
>    if (item.isFormField()) {
>        processFormField(item);
>    } else {
>        processUploadedFile(item);
>    }
>}
>
>We trapped this scenario and added code to show some=20
>customized error when Items are 0. But then it takes agaes to=20
>display the error message on screen when from the logs we can=20
>make out that the control did go till the point of displaying=20
>the error message to screen.
>
>Do not know why this behaviour for large files [>40MB]. It can=20
>be good to know the some threshold at which such error occurs=20
>and if it is a known problem with commons fileupload.
>
>Regards,
>
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