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Paul,
On 9/1/2010 11:27 PM, Paul Szynol wrote:
> I checked the temp directory in catalina.sh and also by adding this line
> to the the ContextListener class:
>
> System.out.println("Temp dir: "
> + (event.getServletContext()
> .getAttribute("javax.servlet.context.tempdir"))
> .toString());
>
> The latter is a subdirectory of the former; Tomcat has read/write access
> to both places.
You didn't mention what the former and latter are ;)
Again, unless you configure commons-fileupload to use Tomcat's tempdir,
it'll default to java.io.tmpdir, which you didn't report. What is that
set to?
> I do create a temporary local copy of the image on disk (by using
> native Java IO classes), so I am able to access the file system
> without a problem (ultimately, the images are stored in a database).
If commons-fileupload is willing to store the file on the disk for you,
why not let it do that and provide an InputStream to your db-writing
code? Otherwise, you might end up writing the same file to the disk
/twice/ before putting it into the database (and back to the disk a
third time).
> It looks like fileupload is meant to store a temporary version of the
> image during the upload, presumably to minimize memory usage.
I believe so. Under a certain size, it will just use memory and leave
the disk alone.
> This is where the fail is happening, if the image exceeds the
> threshold size. I've monitored both temporary directories during the
> upload, and indeed nothing is being written to them.
Can you post your code for commons-fileupload usage? That might help.
> I guess I can increase the threshold size to a higher value to prevent
> the exception by avoiding the file system write altogether, but I worry
> that if the application has many users uploading large images
> concurrently, this set up will quickly lead to fatal out of memory
> errors. :(
Exactly why this feature exists. ;) You could also limit the number of
simultaneous uploads, and then make sure your upload concurrency limit *
maximum image size is affordable under your memory constraints.
> I've sent an inquiry to the apache commons user mailing list. I will
> follow up here when I hear back.
Sound good.
- -chris
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