Right now I am genereating the file offline and using a hyperlink, but that creates double the disk I/O. It reads some files (which the big file is based on), writes the big file, and reads the big file (to deliver it when the user clicks the hyperlink). If I could just create the file and deliver it as I create it, I would save the write/read to/from disk of the big file.
Output buffering is off in php.ini: output_buffering = Off So that does not seem to be it. Maybe the problem should be address on Apache instead of PHP? Thanks, Juan ----- Original Message ----- From: "Raditha Dissanayake" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Juan E Suris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, March 06, 2004 11:44 PM Subject: Re: [PHP] PHP and Apache Using up all memory > Hi Juan, > > What you can do is to switch off output buffering. If it is a really > large file you might want to generate the file offline and deliver it > using the more conventional hyperlink. > > all the best > > Juan E Suris wrote: > > >Hi! > > > >I have a problem with PHP and Apache, where Apache uses up a huge amount of memory. What happens is that I have a PHP script that creates a file on the fly and sends it directly to the broswer (as an attachment, so that the user can save it). The problem is that when the file is big and the client download speed is slow, the Apache process uses up as much memory as the file size. My guess here is that PHP keeps writing data as fast as it can, and Apache caches it in memory until the user can download it all. > > > >Is there any way to avoid this? > > > >My apologies if this is an obvious question. > > > >Thanks, > >Juan > > > > > > > -- > Raditha Dissanayake. > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > http://www.radinks.net/ftp/applet/ > An applet that breaks all the rules. Reads, Writes and deletes files on > your hard disk. Uploads what's left to a third party server. > > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
