Thanks very much, Brad. I looked through the source to see if I could find a 
32-bit integer somewhere that might be the problem but didn't find any smoking 
guns. Let me know if you do. 

On May 12, 2013, at 8:24 PM, bradleyland <[email protected]> wrote:

> A lot of libraries (Ruby and elsewhere) handle large files rather naively. 
> Fortunately, Net::SFTP looks like it has some smarts for this. The docs for 
> Session#download! say: "If local [the second argument] is omitted, downloads 
> the file to an in-memory buffer and returns the result as a string; 
> otherwise, returns the Net::SFTP::Operations::Download instance." The next 
> place to look is at Download: 
> http://net-ssh.github.io/net-sftp/classes/Net/SFTP/Operations/Download.html. 
> It looks like you've already been there though, because you're using the 
> event handler. The file is written as the download progresses, so it doesn't 
> look like it's cramming the whole thing in memory. I also watched memory 
> usage while downloading a large file, and the ruby process stays around 30 
> MB, so I don't think it's an issue related to in-memory buffering.
> 
> I'm still digging to see if I can find a reason why it would hang at 4 GB.
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