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Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2006 10:15:41 -0500
From: Paul J DeCoursey <paul@decoursey.net>
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Subject: Re: [fielupload] how much big size file can be handled?
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What is the OS and server you are running?  I know that IIS has a limit, 
I think it's 2GB, for uploading files.  I'm of the opinion that you 
shouldn't be using a web based fileupload for files that large, you 
should use some more robust file transfer protocol, like FTP, SFTP, SCP 
or USPS.

Paul

Andrew wrote:
> I'm running into the same problem.  I send this email to the list on 
> Friday, but never heard back from anyone...maybe it will get looked at 
> here:
>
> I'm trying to upload files larger than 2GB.  It seems I can send a 
> file larger, but FileUpload throws an exception when it is larger than 
> 2GB.  It throws:
> FileUploadBase$UnknownSizeException: the request was rejected because 
> its size is unknown.
> I'm assuming it can't get the content size because it overflowed an 
> int.  Now, I don't care if it knows how big the file is, I just want 
> it to take when ever file is sent to it.  Is there a way to disable 
> this check?  I'm already setting setMaxSize(-1) (the default) but that 
> doesn't seem to matter.
> Let me know if you all have any ideas.
> Thanks!
> Andrew
>
> Arijit Mukherjee wrote:
>> 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
>>  
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Leena Kulkarni [mailto:leenakulkarni2003@yahoo.com] 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 
>>> 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 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 = new
>>> ServletFileUpload(factory);
>>>
>>> // Parse the request
>>> List /* FileItem */ items =
>>> upload.parseRequest(request); 
>>> // Process the uploaded items
>>> Iterator iter = items.iterator();
>>> while (iter.hasNext()) {
>>>    FileItem item = (FileItem) iter.next();
>>>
>>>    if (item.isFormField()) {
>>>        processFormField(item);
>>>    } else {
>>>        processUploadedFile(item);
>>>    }
>>> }
>>>
>>> We trapped this scenario and added code to show some customized 
>>> error when Items are 0. But then it takes agaes to display the error 
>>> message on screen when from the logs we can make out that the 
>>> control did go till the point of displaying the error message to 
>>> screen.
>>>
>>> Do not know why this behaviour for large files [>40MB]. It can be 
>>> good to know the some threshold at which such error occurs and if it 
>>> is a known problem with commons fileupload.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
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