[EP-tech] Re: is there any file upload limit

[Dr David Tarrant]

I have used a 64 bit architecture (client and server) to transfer 12Gb files. Note that you will need a large /tmp area to buffer the upload! 

Dave T

On 16 Jul 2012, at 13:32, Sebastien Francois <sf2 at ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:

> Hi Stefano,
> 
> I remember testing this with TimB and we could upload 8GB files without a problem from Chrome. Firefox seemed to always complain if the file was bigger than 2-4GB (sorry I don't recall the exact limit). I *think* 64-bit version of IE were OK too.
> 
> Then you may also have limits on the server-side (apache, cgi) but I don't recall it being a default behaviour.
> 
> Seb
> 
> On 16/07/12 07:21, Stefano Cecere wrote:
>> 
>> hi
>> a user has problem uploading a 20Gb file (yes i know it's quite big :)
>> 
>> i read in some old thread that ePrints should not have any limits
>> it's just Apache/Perl that have (maybe a 2Gb limit)
>> 
>> anyway we could upload a 2.5Gb file without any problems
>> 
>> does anybody has any hint where to search about allowing such huge files upload?
>> 
>> we are on Ubuntu 64bit
>> 
>> thank you!
>> 
>> stefano
>> 
>> 
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>> Stefano Cecere
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