Posted by Michael Fesser on 09/10/07 17:27

..oO(Good Man)

>try streaming a 12MB file, regardless of your memory settings, to
>understand my point. your download will end early and you will not get the
>complete file.

I did a test with a 179MB(!) file on my local server - no problems with
a plain readfile(). Memory limit is set to 32MB, PHP 5.2.3. Script
execution and file delivery took about 70s, memory usage was just 1.7MB.

>the function is posted on the manual page for a reason, i personally have
>found it vital, use at your discretion.

Maybe a bug in an older version? The UCN is from 2005.

Micha

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