Tickets :: Comment on [#5913] Lower memory usage while downloading files

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Comment	> OK, lack of time prevented me from going further on this. > > Tried the modifications. It didn't work so I took a look at view.php > and modified it as follows: > > > > case 'download_file': > > $browser->downloadHeaders($filename, null, false, > $GLOBALS['gollem_vfs']->size($filedir, $filename)); > > if (is_resource($stream)) { > > while ($buffer = fread($stream, 10240)) { > > print $buffer; > > ob_flush(); flush(); > > usleep(50000); > > } > > } else { > > echo $data; > > } > > /* if (is_resource($stream)) { > > fpassthru($stream); > > } else { > > echo $data; > > } */ > > break; > > > > That works for me with 16MB memory_limit downloading a 61MB file. The > fpassthru still goggles up more memory than is desirable. ob_flush() > and flush() are nessary to clear internals of the webserver and php, > the usleep(50000) (.05 seconds) allows a bit of time for the buffers > to be actually flushed before filling them again. > > Hows that? > > > > Cheers! Olger.
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