RE: adding very large file to repository fails

I would bet lunch at a fine dining establishment that the problem is IIS
running out of memory.

By default, it kills off processes that consume 60% of available physical
RAM, and it doesn't seem very smart about how it manages memory for
uploads - if you watch RAM usage on the server, it will chunk upwards during
the upload until it hits roughly the size of the file, and then it will
briefly double in size before releasing it all.  If you have only 512MB of
RAM on the server, a 125MB file could exceed the 60% limit if other work is
taking up additional memory in the process.  Look in the event viewer to see
if it says a worker process exceeded the limit.

I believe there are settings somewhere in IIS that control the threshold
where it kills off processes.

Also note that IIS seem to be fine on getting very large files.  I guess it
is smarter for downloads than uploads. :)

Dan Schreiber
SourceGear

>
> I'm trying to add a 125MB file to my repository. Using the admin tool I
> changed the file upload limit to accommodate this but the upload fails.

> Thanks,
>
> Chester Campbell Jr.
> Slingshot, LLC